Bud Luckey was born in Billings, Montana, on July 28, 1934, and grew up loving to draw cowboys, horses, and funny characters. He became an animator, artist, and musician who made famous counting and alphabet cartoons for Sesame Street and later joined Pixar, where he helped design characters for Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, and more. Luckey created, wrote, and sang in the Pixar short film Boundin', and he voiced the character Rick Dicker in The Incredibles and Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3. Friends in animation, including Pixar director John Lasseter, have called Bud Luckey "one of the unsung heroes of animation" because of how much his drawings and ideas shaped the stories kids love.