Davis began animating as a child using his parents' 8 mm camera to film action figures in stop motion.
[3] He worked on the stop motion film The Bermuda Triangle in 1981 while still attending Southern Methodist University, where he graduated in 1984.
Davis was set to direct an upcoming feature film based on Neopets with Warner Bros., together with producer Dylan Sellers and writer Rob Lieber.
In 2002, Davis was nominated for an Academy Award along with Steve Oedekerk in the category of Best Animated Feature for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
[10][11][12] In 2009, Davis largely founded and continues to lead APSIG, the Astrophotography Special Interest Group,[13] associated with the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas.