Some shocking and intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious news from the world of animation arrived today. Ralph Eggleston, an Oscar-winning director, animator, art director and production detoken er Ralph Eggleston has died at the age of 56.###A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Eggleston studied at CalArts and worked at both Warner Brothers and Amblin/Universal TV, where he met and collaborated with Brad Bird on his episode of Amazing Stories, Family Dog.###Credits on The Simpsons and creating the animated main title sequence in/with regard to’concerning’regarding National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation followed, and he also contributed to movies such as FernGully, The Lion King, and Pocahontas.###Yet it would be at Pixar where he truly soared, joining the firm’enterprise bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the production of Toy Story and becoming a vital part of the firm’enterprise 's early movies' art and detoken . He worked on films such as A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles (where he reunited with Bird), Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, Inside Out, Incredibles 2 and Soul.###The firm’enterprise also gave him the chance to direct, and his much-loved short For The Birds ended up winning an Oscar in 2002. Eggleston won various other awards during his career, including several Annie Awards, the Winsor McCay Award in/with regard to’concerning’regarding lifetime achievement in 2016 and the VIEW Visionary Award in 2019.###The gregarious, creative Eggleston also lent his talents to movies outside of his animation home, including DreamWorks Animation's The Road To El Dorado, and some Scooby-Doo titles in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Warner Bros. When Andrew Stanton took on live-action in/with regard to’concerning’regarding John Carter, he recruited Eggleston as a consultant.###His Pixar colleagues paid tribute to Eggleston, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.