Ronnie del Carmen

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Ronnie del Carmen
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Del Carmen in 2014
Born
Ronaldo del Carmen

Cavite City, Philippines
Alma mater University of Santo Tomas
Occupations
  • Writer
  • director
  • storyboard artist
  • illustrator
  • voice actor
Years active1990–present
Employers
Children2
Relatives Louie del Carmen (brother)

Ronaldo del Carmen 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, the first Filipino to do so.

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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Del Carmen at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009

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 animated film 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 was set to write and direct an animated feature film based on Philippine folklore at Netflix. [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]

Personal life

Del Carmen is married and has two children. [1] His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation. [10] After moving in the United States, he partially became a U.S. citizen in prior of working with animation studios for over two decades. [11]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleDirectorWriterStory
Supervisor		Story
Artist		OtherNotes
1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm NoNoNoYesNoStoryboard Designer
1998 The Prince of Egypt NoNoNoYesNo
2000 The Road to El Dorado NoNoYesNoNoArtistic Supervisor - Story
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker NoNoNoYesNoDirect-to-video
2002 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron NoNoYesNoNoArtistic Supervisor - Story
2003 Finding Nemo NoNoYesNoNo
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas NoNoNoAdditionalNo
2007 Ratatouille NoNoNoYesNo
2008 WALL-E NoNoNoYesNo
2009 Up NoNoYesNoYesAdditional Screenplay Material
2012 Brave NoNoNoAdditionalNo
2013 Monsters University NoNoNoAdditionalNo
2015 Inside Out Co-DirectorOriginal StoryNoNoYesAdditional Voices
2017 Coco NoNoNoYesYesPixar Senior Creative Team
2018 Incredibles 2 NoNoNoNoYes
2019 Toy Story 4 NoNoNoNoYes
2020 Soul NoNoNoNoYesVoice of Windstar
Additional Story Contributions
2023 Elemental NoNoNoNoYesVoice of Bernie Lumen
2024 Inside Out 2 NoNoNoNoYesAdditional Screenplay Material

Short films

YearTitleRole
2005 One Man Band Production designer
2009LeonardoAdditional background designer
Dug's Special Mission Director
Writer

Television series

YearTitleRole
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

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

References

  1. 1 2 Janet R. Nepales, “Spotlight on Filipino Co-director Ronnie Del Carmen and His Much-talked-about Pixar Film, ‘Inside Out’,” Golden Globes, May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Jeramie Noyer, “Up: rising with Story Artist and Dug's Special Mission's Director Ronnie del Carmen!” Animated Views, November 26, 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 “Ronnie del Carmen,” Pixar Talk. Accessed July 12, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Ramin Zahed, “A Dug's Life: Ronnie del Carmen Chats About His New Pixar Short,” Animation Magazine , November 6, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Inside Out (2015)". British Film Institute . Archived from the original on March 19, 2021. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Chris Arrant, “Pixar & Comics – Ronnie del Carmen on ‘And There You Are’,” Newsarama.com, March 18, 2009.
  10. ↑ Ruben V. Nepales, “Cavite-born UST alum co-directs Pixar film”, Philippine Daily Inquirer , September 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Oscar nominee Ronnie del Carmen, a UST grad, chronicles his journey as a filmmaker in the U.S." PEP.ph. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
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