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Bruce W Smith

Bruce W. Smith

Director

​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.

Born: January 1, 1961 (Age 63) in Los Angeles, California, USA

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Bruce W. Smith  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7
ActorSelf2002
Movie
6.4
ActorSelf2023
TV Show
6.9
Actor1 Episode1996-2002
Short Film
7.2
ActorAnimator1989
Movie
7.2
ActorSelf1994
Movie
6
DirectingDirector1992
Movie
5.2
CrewSupervising Animator2004
Movie
6
Visual EffectsAnimation1987
Movie
5.8
CrewSequence Supervisor1991
Movie
7.6
CrewSupervising Animator2000
Movie
7.3
CrewSupervising Animator2009
Movie
7.3
CrewSupervising Animator2011
Movie
7.8
Visual EffectsAdditional Effects Development2012
TV Show
6.6
DirectingDirector
13 Episodes
1995-2000
TV Show
7.5
WritingWriter
5 Episodes
1986-1986
TV Show
6.4
DirectingDirector, Producer, Creator
6 Episodes
2001-2005
TV Show
8.1
WritingWriter
2 Episodes
1985-1989
TV Show
2.3
ProductionProducer, Creator
13 Episodes
2004-2005
TV Show
3.3
ProductionExecutive Producer, Creator
10 Episodes
2022
Short Film
7.6
DirectingDirector2019
Movie
5.5
DirectingDirector2005
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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