Bud Luckey

Bud Luckey was an American animator, cartoonist, singer, musician, designer, composer, artist and voice actor.

He was best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and the first three Toy Story movies.

Luckey wrote, directed, composed and performed as the solo singer/narrator on the Pixar 2004 animated short film Boundin’, which garnered an Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category.

As a voice for animated characters, Luckey is known as the voice of Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and Eeyore from A. A. Milne's classic children's book series Winnie-the-Pooh.

Luckey wrote and animated many short films for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop during the 1970s, often doing the voice work himself as well.

Luckey semi-retired from Pixar in 2008 but continued to work with the studio from time to time and with the parent Disney organization, primarily as a performer of character voices, up until his death in 2018. He retired permanently in 2014.

Luckey died February 24, 2018, in Newtown, Connecticut. He was 83.