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Louie del Carmen
Born
Manuel Luis Gonzales del Carmen

(1967-08-19) August 19, 1967 (age 58)
Cavite City, Philippines
OccupationsAnimator, storyboard artist, director, illustrator
Years active1995–present
Employer(s)Nickelodeon Animation Studio (1995–2009)
Disney Television Animation (2000–2011)
Warner Bros. Animation (2001–2006)
20th Century Fox Animation (2004–2007)
Cartoon Network Studios (2005–2012)
DreamWorks Animation (2007–2013)
Sony Pictures Animation (2013–2022)
Skydance Animation (2021–?)
RelativesRonnie del Carmen (brother)
Websitelouiedelcarmen.com

Manuel Luis Gonzales del Carmen (born August 19, 1967), known professionally as Louie del Carmen, is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and illustrator.

Career

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Born in Cavite City, Philippines, he would then move to Los Angeles, California and begin his animation work in 1995. He first worked at Games Animation for the series The Ren & Stimpy Show as a freelance storyboard artist for one episode, "Big Flakes".[1] He would then work on animated series like Rugrats, Rocket Power, Invader Zim, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Kim Possible, Drawn Together, American Dragon: Jake Long, The Mighty B!, and Phineas and Ferb. In 2004, he worked as a story artist at 20th Century Fox Animation for the 2006 film, Ice Age: The Meltdown. In 2007, he would continue his position as story artist by working at DreamWorks Animation on some of their notable and successful projects like the first two Kung Fu Panda films, How to Train Your Dragon and its TV shows, Megamind and The Croods.

In 2006, he self-published his first book titled Random Anomalies, a collection of editorial-style cartoons dealing with the subject of fate and synchronicity. Honoring his art heroes, he followed Random Anomalies with the science fiction themed art book The Wayward Traveller: Snapshots from Alternate Worlds. In The Wayward Traveller he cites such artists as Jean Giraud (Moebius), Syd Mead, and Katsuhiro Otomo as strong influences in his work. As a follow-up to The Wayward Traveller he released Alternating Currents in the summer of 2008, featuring an all new line up of science fiction illustrations.

Staying in sci-fi genre, del Carmen released his first self-published comic book in 2007 called Steel Noodles: A Slice of Heaven featuring an orange-haired, waif warrior named Val. The short, independently printed book served as a preview to a much larger story which he has developed into a multi-part graphic novel, starting with Steel Noodles Number 1 which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010.

Personal life

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Del Carmen also has two brothers that work in animation; Ronnie is a story artist, designer, illustrator and film director at Pixar, while Rick (Enrique)[2] works as a storyboard artist and assistant director at 20th Century Animation.[3]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Title Notes
1995 The Ren & Stimpy Show additional storyboard design, Episode: "Big Flakes"
1995–1997 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters character design
1997–2001 Rugrats character design/director
1998–2000 The Angry Beavers character design
1999 Dilbert
The New Woody Woodpecker Show assistant storyboard artist
1999–2001 Rocket Power storyboard artist/director
2000 Clerks: The Animated Series storyboard artist
2001 The Oblongs character design/storyboard artist
2001–2002 Invader Zim storyboard supervisor
2002–2006 Kim Possible storyboard artist
2002 3-South
2003 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
2005 Lilo & Stitch: The Series
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
2005–2006 Drawn Together
Loonatics Unleashed
The X's
2005–2007 American Dragon: Jake Long
2007–2008 The Emperor's New School
2008–2009 The Mighty B! storyboard supervisor
2009–2010 Phineas and Ferb
2010–2012 The Cleveland Show
2011–2012 Regular Show
2012 Dragons: Riders of Berk[4] series director
2013 Dragons: Defenders of Berk

Feature film

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Year Title Notes
1998 The Rugrats Movie character designer
2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2003 Rugrats Go Wild
2004 Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster storyboard artist
2005 American Dad!: Inside the CIA storyboard supervisor
2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown story artist
2007 Futurama: Bender's Big Score storyboard supervisor
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: Amazon Adventure
2008 Justice League: The New Frontier storyboard artist
Kung Fu Panda story artist
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto storyboard supervisor
2010 How to Train Your Dragon story artist
Megamind
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension storyboard supervisor
2012 Rise of the Guardians story artist
2013 The Croods
2017 The Star storyboard artist
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie story artist
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019 Abominable
Frozen II storyboard artist
2022 Luck story artist

Web/internet

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Year Title Notes
2007 Revisioned: Tomb Raider Art direction/design, Episode: "Rising Thaumopolis"

Bibliography

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  • Rugrats: Pizza Cats (1999 - ISBN 0-689-82391-6) Simon & Schuster
  • Rugrats: Oh Brother! (1999 - ISBN 0-689-82440-8) Simon & Schuster
  • Rugrats: Be My Valentine (2000 - ISBN 0-689-83065-3) Simon & Schuster
  • Random Anomalies (2006) self-published
  • The Wayward Traveller: Snapshots from Alternate Worlds (2006) self-published
  • The Call (2007) (Hot Mexican Love Comics) (Independently published Anthology)
  • Subway Sketches (2007) (Art Compilation) (Imaginism Books, Toronto Canada)
  • Swallow 3 (2007) (Art Compilation) (IDW Publishing)
  • Dragon Sketches (2007) (Art Compilation) (Imaginism Books, Toronto Canada)
  • Steel Noodles: A Slice of Heaven (2007) self-published
  • Muerto Mambo (2008) (Hot Mexican Love Comics) (Independently published Anthology)
  • Alternating Currents (2008) self-published
  • DRAWING INSPIRATION: The Visual Artist at Work (2010) (Delmar Cengage Learning) ISBN 978-1-4180-5225-6
  • Steel Noodles Number 1 (2010) self-published ISBN 978-0-9827706-0-3
  • Girl n Robot: Boomtown (2011) self-published
  • Steel Noodles Number 2 (2012) self-published ISBN 978-0-9827706-1-0
  • MUSE Volume 1 (2013) self-published ISBN 978-0-9827706-2-7

References

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  1. ^ Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1593931100.
  2. ^ "Enrique (Rick) Del Carmen". LinkedIn. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  3. ^ V. Nepales, Ruben (April 7, 2012). "My 'Filipino connection' pays off". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  4. ^ "DreamWorks' Louie del Carmen, Director of the Dragons TV Show, is at a exhibitor table G4! Drop by and meet him, he's really nice!". DreamWorks Animation. July 13, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012 – via Twitter.
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