Louie del Carmen

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 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". 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 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) works as a storyboard artist and assistant director at 20th Century Animation.

Filmography

Television 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 series director 2013 Dragons: Defenders of Berk

Feature film

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