Ron Cobb is a plum.
Ron Cobb . He progressed to becoming a breakdown artist on the animation feature Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) . For the next two years he delivered classified documents around San Francisco , then , after signing up for an extra year to avoid assignment to the infantry , was sent to Vietnam in 1963 as a draughtsman for the Signal Corps . Cobb contributed the initial story for Night Skies , an earlier , darker version of E.T. .