He is best known as the creator of Disney's The Proud
Family.
History
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.
Disney Filmography
Year Film Position
1988 Who Framed
Roger Rabbit Animator
1995 A Goofy Movie Character Designer
1999 Tarzan Supervising Animator: Kerchak and the Baby
Baboon
2000 The Emperor's
New Groove Supervising Animator: Pacha
2001 The Proud
Family Developer/Director/Writer
2004 Home on the
Range Supervising Animator: Pearl
2005 The Proud
Family Movie Director
2009 The Princess
and the Frog Supervising Animator:
Dr. Facilier
2011 Winnie the Pooh
Supervising Animator: Kanga, Roo,
and Piglet
2012 Wreck-It Ralph Additional Visual Development Artist
2013 Frozen Additional Visual Development Artist
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