Source: Buena Vista Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nKozachik’s work extended to “James and the Giant Peach” (1996), “Corpse Bride” (2005), and “Coraline” (2009). He also contributed to “Star Wars: Episode II \u2013 Attack of the Clones” (2002), “Monkeybone” (2001), and “Starship Troopers” (1997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Survived by his wife, scenic artist Katy Moore-Kozachik, his pioneering work remains celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The animation and visual effects community mourns the loss of Pete Kozachik, best known for his work on the beloved movie “Nightmare Before Christmas.” Sadly, he passed away on September 12, aged 72, at his home in California’s Bay Area after battling aphasia and primary progressive aphasia for several years. From Tucson to the Oscars: […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":20985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[2318,3850,1294,6119,1607,1444,1519,6118,1270,6116,2841,1202,6069,1608,2092,6117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21011,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions\/21011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}