Ash Brannon was a directing animator for Pixar's first feature length animated film, "Toy Story". He was co-director on the sequel, "Toy Story 2" and is now directing the CG-penguin-tastic animated film, " Surf's Up" - for which Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Jeff Bridges and Jon Heder are providing voices. According to his commentary on Toy Story 2, his licence plate ID is LZTYBRN, the same as Al McWhiggin in that same movie. Wikipedia
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