Ralph Eggleston Cause Of Death

Ralph Eggleston, an Award-winning animator, art director and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios, is reportedly dead. He died on Monday, August 29 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old.

Eggleston began his career at Pixar in 1992, hired during the development of Toy Story, his work which won him the Annie Award for Best Art Direction.

Eggleston won the animated short film Oscar for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film, For The Birds. He worked as a Production Designer on the film, Inside Out for six years, which received the Annie Award for Best Production Design

Pixar tweeted a tribute to him saying, “Pixar and the world will forever be grateful”.