Jim Capobianco

Raised in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Capobianco attended Saddle Brook High School.^[9]

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts,^[10] Capobianco started in the story department at Walt Disney Feature Animation on The Lion King (1994).^[10][3] He then worked on the storyboards for Hunchback of Notre Dame (1999) and Fantasia 2000 (1999).^[1] Capobianco has also worked for Pixar,^[11] on storyboards for films such as A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Finding Dory (2016).^[12][13]

In 2007, he wrote and directed the animated short film Your Friend the Rat,^[12] and co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Ratatouille,^[12] which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.^[14]

In 2009, Capobianco co-founded with Shelley Trott the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival.^[6] That same year, he directed Leonardo, a short film about Leonardo da Vinci,^[15] now in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC.^[10]

With Aerial Contrivance Workshop, Capobianco was the 2D animation sequence director for Walt Disney Motion Pictures' Mary Poppins Returns (2018),^[10] and also wrote and directed the 2023 stop-motion animated feature film The Inventor,^[16][17] a continuation of his short Leonardo, focused on the end of Leonardo da Vinci's life in France.^[18][19]

Aerial Contrivance Workshop

• 2009: Leonardo (short film) - writer, director and producer
• 2009: How To be a Good Bagger - writer and director
• 2018: Mary Poppins Returns - Animation Sequence Director
• 2022: Philharmonia Fantastique - story and animation director^[20]
• 2023: The Inventor - writer, director and producer^[21]

As animator

• 1989: Baby's Bedtime^[1]

Netflix Animation

• 2020: Go Go Cory Carson - voice of Gary Garbage Truck^[22]

Pixar

• 1998: A Bug's Life - story artist^[13]
• 1999: Toy Story 2 - story artist^[13]
• 2001: Monsters, Inc. - story artist^[13]
• 2003: Finding Nemo - story artist^[13]
• 2007: Ratatouille - writer / story-supervisor^[13]
• 2007: Your Friend the Rat - writer / director^[13]
• 2008: Wall•E - directed the end credits^[13]
• 2009: Up - story artist^[13]
• 2015: Inside Out - story artist^[13]
• 2016: Finding Dory - story artist^[13]
• 2017: Coco - storyboards

Cartoon Saloon

• 2014: Song of the Sea - story consultant
• 2017: Breadwinner - story consultant
• 2020: Wolfwalkers - story consultant

Disney Feature Animation

• 1994: The Lion King - storyboards^[1]
• 1996: Hunchback of Notre Dame - storyboards^[1]
• 1999: Fantasia 2000 - storyboards^[1]