Vincent Waller | |
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Born | Vincent Paul Waller September 30, 1960 Arlington, Texas, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Writer, storyboard artist, animator, technical director |
Years active | 1988–present |
Known for | The Ren & Stimpy Show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy SpongeBob SquarePants |
Vincent Paul Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable ones being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants .
Initially introduced to series creator John Kricfalusi via an acquaintanceship with Bob Camp, Waller was hired at Spümcø in 1990 to work on The Ren & Stimpy Show . A prominent storyboarder and layout artist during the series' first season, he was promoted to a director the following year and helmed "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" and "Big Baby Scam" for the second season before departing the show alongside Kricfalusi in 1992. Waller would continue to collaborate with Kricfalusi throughout the following decade, working on The Ripping Friends and directing "Onward and Upward", the first episode of Ren and Stimpy's short-lived adult-oriented revival, in 2003.
Waller produced and directed shorts for Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons . He co-created What is Funny? with Bill Burnett, as well as Pete Patrick: Private Investigator and Let's Talk Turkey. He also adapted the Harvey Kurtzman comic Hey Look! into a pilot episode for the series.
Waller was a writer for animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants during the last half of the series' first season, leaving after the first season was completed. Waller returned to the series as technical director for the series' fourth season, and supervised the first season of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law . He worked on The Oblongs as a director, and later as re-take director. He was also a writer and storyboard artist on Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne . Towards the end of the fourth season, Waller was promoted to creative director of SpongeBob, replacing Derek Drymon. In 2015, Waller was promoted to supervising producer and showrunner along with Marc Ceccarelli, succeeding Paul Tibbitt. This resulted in the retirement of the creative director position.
Waller served as the creative supervisor for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water . He also serves as co-executive producer and showrunner of the SpongeBob prequel series, Kamp Koral . [1] [2]
He briefly served as a director alongside Bill Kopp for an unfinished Austin Powers animated series. [3] [4]
He had also briefly worked at Marvel Comics as an inker and penciller for comics including Savage Tales , The Savage Sword of Conan and Mark Hazzard: Merc . [5]
Year | Title | Notes |
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1988–1990 | The Real Ghostbusters | storyboard clean-up storyboard artist |
1990 | New Kids on the Block | storyboard artist |
Gravedale High | storyboard artist | |
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | storyboard director | |
1990–1991 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | storyboard director |
1991–1993 | The Ren & Stimpy Show | writer storyboard artist story director (1992–1993) character designer layout supervisor |
1993 | Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog | storyboard artist |
2 Stupid Dogs | animation director | |
1994 | The Baby Huey Show | writer storyboard artist |
The Tick | storyboard artist | |
1995 | What-a-Mess | storyboard artist |
Earthworm Jim | storyboard artist | |
1996–1997 | Duckman | storyboard artist |
1997 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | overseas animation director |
1998 | I Am Weasel | storyboard artist (episode "I Am Crybaby") |
Cow and Chicken | storyboard artist (episode "Buffalo Gals") | |
Oh Yeah! Cartoons | writer producer director Voice actor | |
1999–2000 2005–present | SpongeBob SquarePants | writer (2000; 2005; 2011–2012) storyboard artist (2000) storyboard director (2005; 2011–2012) creative director (2005–2015) showrunner (2015–present) supervising producer (2015–2018) Voice actor co-executive producer (2018–2022) [1] executive producer (2022–present) |
2001–2002 | The Oblongs | retake director (2001) director |
2001–2002 | Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | storyboard artist character designer background designer director art director supervising director |
2003 | Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" | story storyboard artist |
2004 | The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy | story storyboard artist |
Evil Con Carne | story (episode "Hector, King of the Britons") storyboard artist (episode "Hector, King of the Britons") | |
2005 | The X's | storyboard artist |
2021–present | Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years | developer co-executive producer theme song composer |
The Patrick Star Show | creator developer co-executive producer |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1999 | Boo Boo Runs Wild | storyboard artist layout artist |
A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith | storyboard artist layout artist |
Year | Title | Notes |
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2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | creative supervisor |
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