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Bruce W. Smith
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 Prou…
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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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2026
A Proud Family Wizmas
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Not Just a Goof
Movie Self
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2023
Pencils vs Pixels
Movie Self
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2022
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Hair Love
Movie Director
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2013
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Movie Animation
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2012
Wreck-It Ralph
Movie Additional Effects Development
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2011
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
Movie Animation
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2011
Winnie the Pooh
Movie Supervising Animator
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2010
Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
Movie Self
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2009
The Princess and the Frog
Movie Supervising Animator
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2005
The Proud Family Movie
Movie Director
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2004
Da Boom Crew
TV show Producer
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2004
One by One
Movie Visual Development
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2004
Home on the Range
Movie Supervising Animator
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2003
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
TV show Writer
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2002
The Sweatbox
Movie Self
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2001
The Proud Family
TV show Producer
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2000
The Emperor's New Groove
Movie Supervising Animator
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1996
Space Jam
Movie Animation Director
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1996
Arli$$
TV show Bruce Smith
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1995
A Goofy Movie
Movie Character Designer
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show Director
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1994
The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
Movie Self
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1994
The Pagemaster
Movie Animation Director
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1992
Bebe's Kids
Movie Director
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1991
Rover Dangerfield
Movie Sequence Supervisor
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1989
Tummy Trouble
Movie Animation
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1989
Back to Neverland
Movie Animator
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1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie Animation
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1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Movie Animation
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1986
SilverHawks
TV show Writer
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1985
ThunderCats
TV show Writer
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1984
Garfield in the Rough
Movie Key Animation
