Bruce Smith is among the animation industry’s leading designer-directors. Together with Hyperion Pictues, Smith founded Jambalaya Studio, an animation company focused on producing racially diverse projects. Smith created the hit Disney Channel series “The Proud Family” and co-created The Cartoon Network’s urban sci-fi series “Da Boom Crew.” Most recently he directed a feature-length production of “The Proud Family” which became one of Disney Channel’s all-time hit movies. Upcoming: “The Yum Yums,” an animated comedy co-created with Master P.
Smith directed the animation in Michael Jordan’s “Space Jam,” directed the Paramount feature “Bebe’s Kids,” supervised animation in the Disney features “Tarzan” and “The Emperor’s New Groove,” and designed and directed the CableAce-winning HBO series “Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child.” His other credits include sequence directing on Warner Bros.’ “Rover Dangerfield”; and animating on Disney’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” “Sport Goofy,” and “Tummy Trouble,” and on 20th Century Fox’s “The Pagemaster.”