Schott studied animation at Sheridan College in Toronto and spent much of his career working for Nelvana, including animating on specials (including three Strawberry Shortcake entries) and the feature film Rock & Rule and directing Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation and episodes of Ewoks, Babar, and Rupert. He did storyboards on many of the latter, and outside of Nelvana, did the same on Inspector Gadget and the Disney series DuckTales, TaleSpin, and Darkwing Duck.