[2][3][4][5][6] He has worked as a story artist and storyboard artist[7] for films such as The Lion King (1994), Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Finding Dory (2016).
In 2023, he wrote and directed the animated feature film The Inventor, about Leonardo da Vinci's life in France.
[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).
[14] In 2009, Capobianco co-founded with Shelley Trott the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival.
[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.