Vincent Waller

Vincent Paul Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable of which being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Career The Ren & Stimpy Show 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, directing "Onward & Upward", the first episode of Ren and Stimpys short-lived adult-oriented revival, in 2003.

Other shows Waller produced and directed shorts for Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons. He co-created What Is Funny? (whose main character, Slap T. Pooch, later appeared in the logo of Nickelodeon Movies for the intro of The Rugrats Movie) 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.

SpongeBob SquarePants and other work Despite refusing to be hired at Games Animation out of loyalty to Kricfalusi alongside Jim Smith and Richard Pursel, Waller would later be hired to the studio, albeit much later than his peers and after it had rebranded as Nickelodeon Animation Studio. He served as 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, succeeding 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.

He briefly served as a director alongside Bill Kopp for an unfinished Austin Powers animated series.

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.

Filmography

Television series Year Title Notes 1988–1990 The Real Ghostbusters storyboard clean-upstoryboard 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 writerstoryboard artiststorydirector character designerlayout supervisor 1993 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog storyboard artist 2 Stupid Dogs animation director 1994 The Baby Huey Show writerstoryboard artist The Tick storyboard artist 1995 What-a-Mess storyboard artist Earthworm Jim storyboard artist 1996–1997 Duckman storyboard artist 1997 Nightmare Ned writer (episode "The Dentist")storyboard artist 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 writerproducerdirectorVoice actor 1999–2000, 2005–present SpongeBob SquarePants writer storyboard artist storyboard director creative director showrunner supervising producer Voice actorco-executive producer executive producer 2001–2002 The Oblongs retake director director Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law storyboard artistcharacter designerbackground designerdirectorart directorsupervising director 2003 Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" storystoryboard artist 2004 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy storystoryboard 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 2006 Happy Tree Friends storyboard artist (episode "Doggone It") 2021–2024 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years developerco-executive producertheme song composer 2021–present The Patrick Star Show creatordeveloperco-executive producer

Short films

Feature films Year Title Notes 2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water creative supervisor 2024 Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie executive producer 2025 Plankton: The Movie executive producer 2025 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants executive producer