Film animation artist Joe Ranft, a key member of the creative team at Pixar Animation Studios who helped conceive and shape "A Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life" and did voices for many of the ...

Joe Ranft, one of the key creators of Pixar's hit animated features and the voice of Heimlich the Bavarian caterpillar in "A Bug's Life" (1998), was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday afternoon.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Pixar animator and writer Joe Ranft was one if two people killed in a car accident outside of Los Angeles. Ranft, 45, was nominated for an Academy Award for writing ...

The animation company Pixar, indeed the whole industry, is mourning the loss of one of the artists behind Pixar's magic. Animator Joe Ranft died Tuesday in a car accident. He was 45.

A star in the creative cosmos has gone dark. We're saddened to report that Pixar's Joe Ranft, one of the leading storyboard artists in the animation industry, died yesterday from injuries ...

Joe Ranft (search), who was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing "Toy Story" (search) for Pixar Animation Studios, died when the car he was riding in veered off a Mendocino County highway and ...

Joe Ranft, story supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios for more than a decade and an Oscar-nommed co-writer of "Toy Story" as well as "A Bug's Life," died Aug. 16 in a car accident in Mendocino ...

In his piece, Mike looks at the rules through the prism of a personal friend, Joe Ranft, Pixar’s original head of story who died tragically in a 2005 car crash.

For Joe Ranft, yet another of the most brilliant, most professional, and most gracious people I had the incredible good fortune of knowing, however briefly, at Pixar.