A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
브루스 W. 스미스
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
January 1, 1961
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.
Additional Effects Development:
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
Animation:
1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
Director:
1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1992 Bebe's Kids
2005 The Proud Family Movie
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
2019 Hair Love
Sequence Supervisor:
1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1991 Rover Dangerfield
1992 Bebe's Kids
2005 The Proud Family Movie
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
2019 Hair Love
Supervising Animator:
1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1991 Rover Dangerfield
1992 Bebe's Kids
2000 The Emperor's New Groove
2004 Home on the Range
2005 The Proud Family Movie
2009 The Princess and the Frog
2011 Winnie the Pooh
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
2019 Hair Love
Creator:
2001 The Proud Family
2004 Da Boom Crew
2022 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Director:
1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2001 The Proud Family
2004 Da Boom Crew
2022 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Executive Producer:
1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2001 The Proud Family
2004 Da Boom Crew
2022 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Producer:
1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2001 The Proud Family
2004 Da Boom Crew
2022 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Writer:
1985 ThunderCats
1986 SilverHawks
1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2001 The Proud Family
2004 Da Boom Crew
2022 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
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