Jim Capobianco

Who are you, and what do you do? Jim Capobianco. I mainly work in animation. Writing, directing. I’ve done some voice work too. I went to school to learn the craft of animation in 1987. Whoa, that’s a long time ago. Shit. It pains me to write that year down but that’s when it was. I went to the California Institute of the Arts or as it is more simply called - CalArts. Incidentally, that school was the last big project Walt Disney had a hand in creating. That’s pretty neat, the Obi Wan, the dean of animation created a school of the arts as the last thing he ever did. I like that and I’m honoured to be an alum. At school I learned about storyboarding and developing stories. Decided that was what I wanted to do. Lucky for me Disney Animation, thanks to the success of Roger Rabbit and eventually The Little Mermaid, was expanding its feature animation department. I was hired as a storyboard artist, the youngest at that time, in 1992. Worked at Disney for five years. My first film as a…