Bruce W. Smith

Bruce W. Smith was born on Sep 06, 1961 in USA. Bruce W. Smith's big-screen debut came with Meerkats directed by Chris Schouten in 1987. Bruce W. Smith is known for Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection directed by Roger Allers, Paul Briggs stars as Marshmallow and Alan Dale as Priest. Bruce W. Smith has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Bruce W. Smith achieved is Annie Awards. The upcoming new movie Bruce W. Smith plays is Teen Titans GO! To the Movies which will be released on Jul 27, 2018.

Bruce W. Smith is a feature film character animator, director and television producer. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the Disney Channel hit show The Proud Family and for supervising the animation of the evil villain Dr. Facilier in the Walt Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog.Smith studied animation in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He joined the Walt Disney Studios an animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and various other Roger Rabbit shorts that the studio produced. Soon after, Smith was handpicked by producer/director Reginald Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang) to direct the Paramount Pictures animated film BeBe's Kids.Smith also served as co-director on the Warner Bros. live action/animated film Space Jam before returning to Disney as supervising animator on such films as Tarzan (Kerchak and Baboons) and Emperors New Groove (Pacha).While working animation on the feature film side, Smith started feeding into his love of television animation and created The Proud Family for the Disney Channel. He co-founded Jambalaya Studio for the production of the series and crafted 52 episodes of the hit series along with The Proud Family TV movie. Smith then rejoined the Walt Disney Studios to supervise animation on The Princess and the Frog (Dr. Facilier) and the Winnie the Pooh Movie (Piglet, Kanga and Roo) and as the lead animator on the short Tangled Ever After. Smith's knack for unique character design led him into the visual development of other projects at the studio such as Wreck-it-Ralph and Frozen.