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.

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.

Tuesday's crash happened when the car Mr. Ranft was riding in went out of control on Highway 1 and plunged into the ocean near the mouth of the Navarro River around 3 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 was one of the prime creative people behind PIXAR and a major contributor to Toy Story, a Bug’s Life, Cars. Joe was tragically killed in an automobile accident 5 years ago.

The Ranft family will divide the donations amongst Joe’s favorite charities (including Mosaic).” I’m sure there’s a lot of people wondering what causes they can donate to in honor of Ranft ...

Conspicuously placed in the center is a name tag for Ranft, who died in a 2005 car accident aged 45. Ranft and Soul director Pete Docter worked together on Toy Story, the first Pixar feature film ...