He then directed another DVD short, Megamind: The Button of Doom, before co-directing, with Eric Darnell, the comedy/spy action spin-off from the Madagascar series, Penguins of Madagascar, the mini series Baymax Dreams for Disney, and is executive producer on Batwheels for Warner Bros. Smith was born in Watford, to English parents.
He then moved over to post production house SVC Television, to continue editing but there he also discovered the computer graphic machine Symbolics.
Immediately prior to joining PDI/DreamWorks, Smith served at The Mill as the CG supervisor on commercial projects for Nike, Honda, Volvo and VW Polo.
Smith was also instrumental in helping to set up a CG layout department for Aardman Animation for the production of Chicken Run.
executive producer/showrunner on the animated superhero children's television series Batwheels starring Ethan Hawke for Warner Bros.