Education
Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts.
Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts.
Wise has directed such Disney movies as Beauty and the Beast, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also directed the English language translation of Hayao Miyazaki"s Spirited Away. Early in his career, Wise worked as an animator on Disney"s Sport Goofy in Soccermania (1987), The Great Mouse Detective (1986) and The Brave Little Toaster (1987), as well as Steven Spielberg"s Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog".