Louie del Carmen

Louie del Carmen (born "Manuel Luis Gonzales del Carmen" , August 19, 1967 in Cavite City, Republic of the Philippines) is an American animation storyboard artist/director and illustrator. He is credited on numerous animated programs from the mid 1990's until today including Rugrats, Rocket Power, Invader Zim, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Disney's Kim Possible and the upcoming new animated series called The Mighty B: The Adventures of Bessie Higgenbottom. ( Nickelodeon TV Channel )

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 it he cites artists like Jean Giraud (popularly known as Moebius), Syd Mead, Katsuhiro Otomo and Rowland Emett for being strong influences in his artwork.

Staying in sci-fi genre, Louie 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, locally printed story served as a preview to a much larger story that he is developing into a multi-part graphic novel.

In last quarter of 2007, Louie transitioned to feature animation work by joining Dreamworks Animation as a story artist.

FILMOGRAPHY

Television:

*Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1995), Character Design
*Rugrats (1996-2000), Character Design/Story/Director
*The Rugrats Movie (1997), Character Design
*The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (1998) Character Design
*Rocket Power (1999-2000), Story/Director
*Invader Zim (2000), Story
*He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002 TV series) Story
*Kim Possible (2002, 2004, 2006), Story
* (2003), Story
*The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy(2004), Story
*The X's (2004) Story
* (2005-2006), Story
*The Emperor's New School (2006-2007), Story

* (2007) Story
*Mighty B (2007), Story

Feature Film:

*Kung Fu Panda - OVA (2008), Story

Web/Internet:

*Tomb Raider: Re/Visioned (2007) Art Direction/Design

BOOKS

For Simon & Schuster:

"Rugrats: Pizza Cats" (1999 - ISBN 0-689-82391-6)

"Rugrats: Oh Brother!" (1999 - ISBN 0-689-82440-8)

"Rugrats: Be My Valentine" (2000 - ISBN 0-689-83065-3)

SELF-PUBLISHED:

"Random Anomalies" (2006)

"The Wayward Traveller: Snapshots from Alternate Worlds" (2006)

"Steel Noodles: A Slice of Heaven" (2007)

"Alternating Currents" (2008)

GUEST APPEARANCES:

"The Call" ( 2007) (Hot Mexican Love Comics) (Independently published Anthology)

"Subway Sketches" (2007) (Art Compilation) (Imaginism Books, Toronto Canada)

"Swallow 3" (2007) (Art Compilation) (IDW Publishing)

"Dragon Sketches" (2007) (Art Compilation) (Imaginism Books, Toronto Canada)

"Muerto Mambo" (2008) (Hot Mexican Love Comics) (Independently published Anthology)

External links

* [http://www.louiedelcarmen.com/main.php Website]
* [http://www.randomanomalies.blogspot.com Artist Blog]
* Ronnie del Carmen (Louie's brother and story artist for Pixar Studios)
* Kung Fu Panda Wiki entry
* List of Filipino Americans
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