Ronnie del Carmen

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, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the first Filipino to do so. Early life and education Del Carmen was born in the city of Cavite in the Philippines. 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. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising. 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). 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. The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.

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.

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.

Personal life Del Carmen is married and has two children. After moving in the United States, he partially became a U.S. citizen in prior of working with animation studios for over two decades.

Filmography Films Year Title Director Writer StorySupervisor StoryArtist Other Notes 1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Storyboard Designer 1998 The Prince of Egypt 2000 The Road to El Dorado Artistic Supervisor - Story Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Direct-to-video 2002 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Artistic Supervisor - Story 2003 Finding Nemo Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2007 Ratatouille 2008 WALL-E 2009 Up Additional Screenplay Material 2012 Brave 2013 Monsters University 2015 Inside Out Additional Voices 2017 Coco Pixar Senior Creative Team 2018 Incredibles 2 2019 Toy Story 4 2020 Soul Voice of WindstarAdditional Story Contributions 2023 Elemental Voice of Bernie Lumen 2024 Inside Out 2 Additional Screenplay Material

Short films Year Title Role 2005 One Man Band Production designer 2009 Leonardo Additional background designer Dug's Special Mission DirectorWriter

Television series Year Title Role 1990 Widget, the World Watcher Storyboard artist 1991 Where's Waldo? 1992–95 Batman: The Animated Series Storyboard artistCharacter designer 1993–94 Mighty Max Character designer 1995 Freakazoid! Director