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Ronnie del Carmen
Filipino storyboard artist
Ronaldo del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) is a Filipino writer, director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and voice actor. He co-directed and co-wrote the story for the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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| Born | Ronaldo del Carmen (1959-12-31) December 31, 1959 (age 64) Cavite City, Philippines |
| Alma mater | University of Santo Tomas |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Louie del Carmen (brother) |
Del Carmen was born in the city of Cavite in the Philippines.[1] After high school, he worked as a painter on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, which was filming in the Philippines.[2] He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising.[2]
Film
After college, Del Carmen worked as an art director for print and television advertising campaigns before moving to the United States in 1989 to pursue a career in film.[2] He worked for Warner Bros as a storyboard artist on Batman: The Animated Series, and as a story supervisor for DreamWorks on The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003).[3] He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2000, working as story supervisor on Finding Nemo (2003), production designer on the Academy Award-nominated short film One Man Band (2005), storyboard artist on Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008), and story supervisor on Up (2009).[3][4] He made his directorial debut with the animated short film Dug's Special Mission (2009), which accompanied Up on its DVD and Blu-ray release.[4] He co-directed the computer-animated Inside Out with Pete Docter.[5][6] The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.[7] In April 2021, it was revealed that Del Carmen had left Pixar and is set to write and direct an original Philippine-themed animated feature film at Netflix, although he has appeared in a few roles from Pixar films in later years.[8]
Comic books
Del Carmen has illustrated several comic books, including Batman Adventures: Holiday Special, which won an Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 1995, and the children's book My Name Is Dug, written by Kiki Thorpe.[3] He has also written several comic books, including the Paper Biscuit series and And There You Are.[9]
Del Carmen is married and has two children.[1] His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation.[10]
Feature films
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Story supervisor |
Story artist |
Other | Notes |
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| 1993 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | No | No | No | Yes | No | Storyboard Designer |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | No | No | Yes | No | No | Artistic Supervisor - Story |
| Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | No | No | No | Yes | No | Direct-to-video | |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | No | No | Yes | No | No | Artistic Supervisor - Story |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | No | No | No | Additional | No | ||
| 2007 | Ratatouille | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2008 | WALL-E | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | Up | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Additional Screenplay Material |
| 2012 | Brave | No | No | No | Additional | No | |
| 2013 | Monsters University | No | No | No | Additional | No | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Co-Director | Original Story | No | No | Yes | Additional Voices |
| 2017 | Coco | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Pixar Senior Creative Team |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2020 | Soul | No | No | No | No | Yes | Voice of Windstar, Additional Story Contributions |
| 2023 | Elemental | No | No | No | No | Yes | Voice of Bernie Lumen |
Short films
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Production designer |
Background designer |
Other | Notes |
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| 2005 | One Man Band | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| 2009 | Leonardo | No | No | No | Additional | No | |
| Dug's Special Mission | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| 2019 | Smash and Grab | No | No | No | No | Yes | Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust |
Television
| Year | Title | Credited as |
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| 1990 | Widget, the World Watcher | Storyboard artist |
| 1991 | Where's Waldo? | |
| 1992–95 | Batman: The Animated Series | Storyboard artist, character designer |
| 1993–94 | Mighty Max | Character designer |
| 1995 | Freakazoid! | Director |
- Fragments (Fragments Filigree Factory Production, 2003), illustrator
- Paper Biscuit (Half Life, 2003), writer, illustrator
- Paper Biscuit One Point Five (2003), writer, illustrator
- Batman: Black and White, Vol. 2 (DC Comics, 2003), illustrator
- Paper Biscuit 2 (2004), writer, illustrator
- Project: Superior (AdHouse Books, 2005), illustrator
- Three Trees Make a Forest (Gingko Press, 2006), illustrator
- My Name is Dug (Disney Press, 2009), illustrator
- And There You Are (AdHouse Books, 2009), writer, illustrator
- Eisner Award, Best Single Issue, Batman Adventures Holiday Special (with Paul Dini and Bruce Timm), 1995
- Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: Director, Freakazoid, 1996
- Annie Award, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2003
- Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, WALL-E, 2009
- Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Up, 2010
- National Cartoonists Society, Animated Feature Division Award, Up, 2010
- Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nomination, Inside Out (with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley), 2015
- Jeramie Noyer, “Up: rising with Story Artist and Dug's Special Mission's Director Ronnie del Carmen!” Animated Views, November 26, 2009.
- “Ronnie del Carmen,” Pixar Talk. Accessed July 12, 2015.
- Ramin Zahed, “A Dug's Life: Ronnie del Carmen Chats About His New Pixar Short,” Animation Magazine, November 6, 2009.
- "Inside Out (2015)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 19, 2021. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
- Sciretta, Peter (August 20, 2011). "Pete Docter To Direct Pixar Movie Set Inside The Mind (D23 Expo)". /Film. Archived from the original on May 2, 2021. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
- Gettell, Oliver (May 11, 2015). "Cannes 2015: Studios to drop in with 'Mad Max,' 'Inside Out'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 14, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- Nepales, Ruben V. (April 7, 2021). "[Only IN Hollywood] Ronnie del Carmen on leaving Pixar to direct Philippine lore-based Netflix film". Rappler. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- Chris Arrant, “Pixar & Comics – Ronnie del Carmen on ‘And There You Are’,” Newsarama.com, March 18, 2009.
- Ruben V. Nepales, “Cavite-born UST alum co-directs Pixar film”, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 3, 2011.
