Bruce W. Smith

Known for DirectingBorn 1961-01-01 (age 65)Los Angeles, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bruce W. Smith is an American character animator, film director, and television producer, best known as the creator of Disney's The Proud Family. He studied animation in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. One of the few Black animators working in the industry, Smith got his start as an assistant animator for Bill Meléndez's 1984 Garfield television special Garfield in the Rough. He went on to animate for Baer Animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and in 1992 directed his first feature, Bébé's Kids. Other notable work for Smith during the mid-1990s included supervising the animation for The Pagemaster, serving as director and character designer for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, designing the characters for A Goofy Movie and C Bear and Jamal, and co-directing the animated segments of Space Jam. He was also was the creator of Da Boom Crew along with John P. White and Stiles White. In 1998 he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation, Smith served as a supervising animator on four of its films: Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog. In 2000 when he still worked for Hyperion Pictures, he piloted his series The Proud Family to Nickelodeon, who passed on it. Disney Channel eventually picked the series up the following year and ran it until 2005. The series was the first to be produced by his production company Jambalaya Studios. Smith grew up in Central Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce W. Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess

Pencils vs Pixels

ThunderCats

SilverHawks

Hair Love

The Proud Family

The Emperor's New Groove

Wreck-It Ralph

Not Just a Goof

The Princess and the Frog

Winnie the Pooh

The Sweatbox

A Goofy Movie

Back to Neverland

Garfield in the Rough

Space Jam

One by One

Arli$$

Tummy Trouble

The Pagemaster

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Home on the Range

Bebe's Kids

The Proud Family Movie

The Making of 'The Pagemaster'

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Rover Dangerfield

Da Boom Crew