Byron Howard

Byron P. Howard (born 1968) is a motion picture director and story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation, and is best known as the lead character animator on Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear and the director on Bolt.

History

Byron Howard's career in animation began 15+ years ago when he followed his childhood dream to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios by writing for advice from one of Disney's Nine Old Men animators, Frank Thomas. Using Mr. Thomas's helpful letter, he structured his entire curriculum. Before the ink was dry on his diploma, he relocated to Orlando, Florida, where he worked as a tour guide for Disney’s animation tour at Disney MGM Studios. After 4 portfolio submissions, he began the Disney animation internship, and was hired in 1994. He went from inbetweener to animator to supervising animator in just 5 years. Since relocating to the California studios in 2004, he has worked as story artist, character designer and director on Disney's 47 full-length animated feature, Bolt.

Animation Credits

* Bolt (2008) (director, story artist, character designer)
* Chicken Little (2004) (additional story artist)
* Brother Bear (2003), Brother Bear 2 (2006) (supervising animator: Kenai - Bear)
** Recognition: Annie Award [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Annie_Awards/2004 Nomination in 2004] for Outstanding Character Animation on "Brother Bear" (Kenai)
* Lilo & Stitch (2002) (character designer),(supervising animator: Cobra Bubbles)
* John Henry (2000) (supervising animator: John Henry)
* Mulan (1998) (animator: Yao & The Ancestors)
* Pocahontas (1995) (inbetweener: Pocahontas)

External links

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* [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1809003917 Byron Howard] at [http://movies.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Movies]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/872972/Byron-Howard/filmography Byron Howard] at [http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times]
* [http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/15/Xpress/A_long__drawn_out_pro.shtml Byron Howard interview with the St. Petersburg Times]