Ralph Eggleston, Disney and Pixar animator, director and designer, who released his short film in 2001 for little birds (for the birds) to accompany the length Monsters Incdied this Sunday in California at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer, although the news only became known on Tuesday, according to Hollywood reporter.

The Louisiana-born animator started in the 1980s with the series incredible talesproduced by Steven Spielberg and in the 90s he made the leap to Disney, where he contributed his grain of sand to the iconic films of the Mickey Mouse factory, hit titles like Aladdin, The Lion King Y Pocahontas.

After a stint at Warner Bros and Universal, Eggleston joined Pixar and began working on films that were also box office hits; We speak nothing less than Toy Story, Finding Nemo Y WALL E.

Director of Light year, Angus Maclane, said goodbye to the animator, as well as Pixar’s official Twitter account. “Ralph Eggleston In memoriam: animator, director, art director, storyboard artist, writer, set designer and our dear friend. Pixar and the world will be eternally grateful to him“says the tweet.

Oscar for best short film

In one of those shining careers in the animation world, Eggleston won the Oscar for animated short film for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film. For the birds.

The animator was also the artistic director of the original toy story and his work as an artist has been seen in numerous Pixar films, including Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Cars, The Incredibles Y Inversion.

His last accredited work was in Soul of 2020where he worked as a development artist within the art department.

In memory…

“Goodbye master Ralph Eggleston”Jorge R. Gutiérrez, the creative behind it, wrote on Twitter El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera Y The book of life .

“A true titan of our art form. he came to me later Book of life and I will always appreciate our conversations. Before many knew he was ill, he was trying to donate his spectacular collection of art books to a Mexican animation school. That’s Ralph. “