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, Key Artist for Pixar's Animated Hits Day to Day animation critic Charles Solomon remembers Pixar animator Joe Ranft, who died earlier this week in an auto accident in Northern California.

Some really beautiful sentiments can be found on-line regarding Joe Ranft (1960-2005). Here’s a handful that stood out to me. The complete entries can be read by clicking on the writer’s names ...

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.

Other prolific voices in the movie include Austin Pendleton playing Gurgle, Stephen Root playing Bubble, Vicki Lewis playing Deb, Joe Ranft voicing Jacques, Geoffrey Rush voicing Nigel, Andrew ...

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 ...

Soul pays tribute to late Disney and Pixar animator Joe Ranft, a 20-year animation veteran whose credits include Toy Story and Cars. When middle school band teacher and jazz musician Joe (Jamie ...

When it comes to Joe Ranft, he had more than 22 games or rules, or whatever you call them. It went way, way deeper than that. He was a magician, ...

Joe Ranft was the Oscar-nominated chief writer at Pixar Animation Studios and one of those responsible for the digital animation company's assembly line of blockbuster box-office hits such as Toy ...

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 ...