Byron Howard

Born on 26th December in 1968 in Misawa, Japan, Byron was brought up in Issaquah, Washington, United States. He studied at the Evergreen State College in Olympia of Washington. Having Birth Name as Byron P. Howard, he is a powerhouse of Talent. He is a Director, Animator, Producer, Screenwriter, and a voice actor. For the start of his career as an animator with Disney in 1994, he has undertaken various responsibilities there. He started his journey with as an animator and worked on his first film “Pocahontas” in 1995. He then went on to animate another film in 1998 “ Mulan Click to look into! >> Read More... ”.

He also worked as a Supervising Animator on a Short film based on Disney’s American Legend “John Henry” in 2000. In 2002, he worked on the movie “Lilo& Stitch” as a Supervising Animator and a character designer. His 2003 film “Brother Bear” was nominated for the award of Character Animation for Annie Awards, and Byron was the Supervising Animator. In 2005, he donned the hat of additional story artist for the movie “Chicken Little”.

Another film titled “ Bolt Click to look into! >> Read More... ” in 2008 was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Howard co-directed it with Chris Williams Chris Williams is a renowned comedian and voice ac >> Read More... , and he was also credited for providing additional screenplay material. In 2009, his film “Bolt” was released on home video which included his executive production project “Super Rhino”, a short film. In 2010, a movie based on Rapunzel, a famous Disney character titled “Tangle” was released. This movie was co-directed by Byron with Nathan Greno and he also displayed his talent for voice acting by lending his voice to Guard 2 and Thug 2 in the movie. Tangled won the award the International Theater in Tokyo Anime Award and was also nominated for the Critic’s Choice for the Best Animated Feature Film.

In 2012, Tangled got itself a Sequel that was named “Tangled Ever After” and was directed by Howard and Nathan Greno. Byron also was the writer and gave his voice for the characters of Lantern Wrangler and Chef. Recently, he directed another film with Jared Bush and Rich Moore American film and TV animation director Rich Moore >> Read More... , and it was called as “ Zootopia Click to look into! >> Read More... .” It is a 3D computer-animated film based on the city of Zootopia and their police enforcement system. Byron was credited for the story of the film, supervising the animation and lending his voice to two characters named Bucky Oryx Antlerson and Travis. His directed film of 2010, Tangled was nominated for prestigious Golden Globe Award for the award for the Best Animated Feature Film.