Bruce W. Smith

Born in January 1st, 1961

From Los Angeles, California, USA

Bruce W. Smith Biography

​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.

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Bruce W. Smith Movies

Pencils Vs Pixels Poster
November 7, 2023
Hair Love Poster
August 14, 2019
Wreck-It Ralph Poster
November 2, 2012
Winnie the Pooh Poster
July 15, 2011
The Princess and the Frog Poster
December 11, 2009
The Proud Family Movie Poster
August 19, 2005
Home on the Range Poster
March 21, 2004

Bruce W. Smith TV Shows

ThunderCats Poster
January 23, 1985
SilverHawks Poster
September 8, 1986
The Proud Family Poster
September 15, 2001
Arliss Poster
August 10, 1996

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