Rob Gibbs, a story artist, writer and director who contributed to many Pixar films, fromToy Story 2,Monsters, Inc.andFinding Nemoto Up,Wall-E,Inside OutandOnward, has died, a company spokesman confirmed.
He was 55. A cause of death was not immediately available. Gibbs' credits also included the short filmTokyo Mater(2008) and the series Mater's Tall TalesandTales From Radiator Springs, all emanating from theCarsfranchise;Brave(2012);Monsters University(2013) and the upcomingMonsters at Workseries for Disney+; andIncredibles 2(2018).
Gibbs, a resident of San Rafael, California, was co-directing and in preproduction onHump, featuring the voices of Simon Pegg, Gaten Matarazzo, Ramy Youssef and others, at the time of his death.
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