Bird began his foremost animated cartoon at the young age of Eleven & finished it at Thirteen. A film had a attention of Walt Disney Studios where, at age 14, Bird was mentored by Milt Kahl, one of Disney’s legendary animators known collectively when a Nine Old Men. Bird graduated from either CalArts where he met future Pixar co-founder & director John Lasseter. He finally landed the job at Disney, however left shortly when working on The Fox and the Hound in 1981. Bird was hired inside 1989 by Klasky-Csupo and helped develop The Simpsons from one-microscopic shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show into a half-30 minutes length series. He served there for many supplementary years as an "Executive Consultant". He worked in many more alive television series, including The Critic and King of the Hill before being hired by Warner Bros. to direct a alive film The Iron Giant. Although a film received critical eclat, it did non launder easily at a box office. Bird was in time hired by his old friend John Lasseter to create A Incredibles (where he as well provided a voice of costume designer Edna Mode).

Bird is as well a owner (writer, director, & co-producer) of the Family Dog episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories. Additionally, Bird co-wrote a screenplay for the live-action film Batteries Not Included.

Inside 2005, Bird won an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category for The Incredibles.