Kyle Balda has been working professionally in feature animation for the past 15 years, most notably with Pixar Animation Studios and Industrial Light & Magic. He began his career studying traditional animation at The California Institute of the Arts in 1991, and continued his training during summer internships with Lucas Arts and Pacific Data Images. In 1993 Balda joined the crew of Industrial Light & Magic where he participated in such films as The Flintstones (1994), The Mask (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996) and as supervising animator on Jumanji (1995). After animating on Peter Jackson's The Frighteners (1996) at Weta Digital in New Zealand, Kyle returned to California to work at Pixar as an animator on A Bug's Life (1998) and Monsters, Inc. (2001) and as directing animator of Toy Story 2 (1999).
原名Steven John Carell,1962年8月16日出生于马萨诸塞州康科德一个意裔美国家庭。毕业于私立男子高校Fenn School,之后进入康科德的男女混合学校。他从俄亥俄州的Denison大学毕业后,在芝加哥第二大城市剧团里开始表演生涯。卡瑞尔的电影处女作是1991年的《最Q拍档》。
法国电影导演及动画设计师。在2010年,柯芬因为他与克里斯·雷纳德共同导演的动画电影《卑鄙的我》而成名,并随后参与了续集《卑鄙的我2》的导演工作。