Byron Howard

**Byron Patrick Howard** is a Japanese-born American animator, story artist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Howard grew up in Issaquah, Washington, attending Issaquah High School (graduating in 1986) and attending The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Howard's career in animation began 25 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, Howard 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 a story artist, character designer on Cobra Bubbles for *Lilo & Stitch* and Kenai for *Brother Bear*, and director on Disney's 48th animated feature film, *Bolt*. He was recognized for an Annie Award Nomination in 2004 for Outstanding Character Animation on *Brother Bear*.

Howard started his career in 2008 as a director with the film, *Bolt*. The other director of this film is Chris Williams, and the writers of the film are Dan Fogelman and Chris Sanders. It was released on November 21, 2008, and the cast of the film includes John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton, etc. He also directed the short film tied in with *Bolt's* DVD/Blu-Ray release called, *Super Rhino*. Additionally, he directed *Tangled* with Nathan Greno.

In May 2013, it was reported that Howard, along with Rich Moore, was directing an animated animal comedy film for Walt Disney Animation Studios. A few months later, it was revealed that the film would be titled *Zootopia*, and was released on March 2016.

In the Fusion documentary *Imagining Zootopia*, Howard declared he is gay and has been married since 1988.

## Animated Shorts Filmography

 2012 | *Tangled Ever After* | Writer/Director/Voice Actor (Lantern Wrangler and Chef)

## Disney Roles

Tangled guard 2.png**Guard #2**
(*Tangled*)Tangled thug 2.png**Thug #2**
(*Tangled*)Bucky Oryx-Antlerson.jpg**Bucky Oryx-Antlerson**
(*Zootopia*)Travis.jpg**Travis**
(*Zootopia*)
## Gallery

Zootopia & Who Framed Roger Rabbit.jpgWho Framed Roger Rabbit tribute by Byron HowardWinnie & Gang - Byron Howard.jpegWinnie the Pooh tribute by Byron HowardWinnie The Pooh - Byron Howard.jpegWinnie the Pooh by Byron HowardPiglet - Byron Howard.jpegPiglet by Byron HowardTigger - Byron Howard.jpegTigger by Byron HowardEeyore - Byron Howard.jpegEeyore by Byron HowardRabbit - Byron Howard.jpegRabbit by Byron HowardStar Wars - The Sloth Awakens.pngStar Wars: The Force Awakens parody poster by Byron HowardZootopia - Chinese Promotional Poster.jpgChinese Zootopia promotional poster featuring BaymaxClawhauser - Disney Animation Record.jpgZootopia celebration poster featuring Clawhauser by Byron HowardDisney Heroines by Bryon Howard.jpgMittens, Rapunzel and Judy Hopps by Byron HowardZootopia Summer by Byron Howard.jpgZootopia Summer Holiday Promotion by Byron HowardJudy Hopps Watercolor by Byron Howard.jpgJudy Hopps Watercolor by Byron HowardByron Howard & Chris Williams Bolt premiere.jpgByron Howard and Chris Williams at the premiere of *Bolt* in November 2008.HowardGreno Tangled.jpgByron Howard and Nathan Greno at the premiere of *Tangled* in November 2010.Zootopia-bluray-rich-moore-byron-howard.jpgByron Howard and Rich Moore behind the scenes of *Zootopia*.Howard Moore Spencer at Oscars17.jpgByron Howard with Rich Moore and Clark Spencer pose in the press room during the 89th annual Academy Awards in February 2017.
## References

1. ↑ Byron Howard (2016-03-14). Byron Howard answers on Twitter. Retrieved on March 14, 2016.

## External Links

* File:Imdb2.png Byron Howard on IMDb
* File:WikipediaListLink.PNG Byron Howard on Wikipedia

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