He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990, after which he began working on several Disney animated films, such as The Little Mermaid and the Mickey Mouse adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper.
He gained the idea from two stray dogs roaming in his apartment and tried to sell it when Hanna-Barbera bought it.
Cook then returned to Disney in 1997, where he developed and produced the series Nightmare Ned.
The film, Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, premiered worldwide on DVD in 2004.
Cook was originally scheduled to co-direct the film Space Chimps, but he would be subsequently scrapped from the project.