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| Born | Ronaldo del Carmen December 31, 1959 Cavite City, Philippines |
| Alma mater | University of Santo Tomas |
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| Relatives | Louie del Carmen (brother) |
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.
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]
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]
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]
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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