Ronnie Del Carmen

He co-directed and co-wrote the story for the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Ronnie del Carmen
Del Carmen in 2014
Born	Ronaldo del Carmen (1959-12-31) December 31, 1959 (age 64) Cavite City, Philippines
Alma mater	University of Santo Tomas
Occupations	Writer director storyboard artist illustrator voice actor
Employers	DreamWorks Animation (1997–2003) Pixar Animation Studios (2000–present) Netflix (2020–present)
Children	2
Relatives	Louie del Carmen (brother)

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.

 

Film

After college, Del Carmen worked as an art director for print and television advertising campaigns before moving to the United States in 1989 to pursue a career in film. He worked for Warner Bros as a storyboard artist on Batman: The Animated Series, and as a story supervisor for DreamWorks on The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003). 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. He co-directed the computer-animated Inside Out with Pete Docter. 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 is set to write and direct an original Philippine-themed animated feature film at Netflix, although he has appeared in a few roles from Pixar films in later years.

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. He has also written several comic books, including the Paper Biscuit series and And There You Are.

Del Carmen is married and has two children. His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation.

Feature films

Short films

Television

• Fragments (Fragments Filigree Factory Production, 2003), illustrator
• Paper Biscuit (Half Life, 2003), writer, illustrator
• Paper Biscuit One Point Five (2003), writer, illustrator
• Batman: Black and White, Vol. 2 (DC Comics, 2003), illustrator
• Paper Biscuit 2 (2004), writer, illustrator
• Project: Superior (AdHouse Books, 2005), illustrator
• Three Trees Make a Forest (Gingko Press, 2006), illustrator
• My Name is Dug (Disney Press, 2009), illustrator
• And There You Are (AdHouse Books, 2009), writer, illustrator

• Eisner Award, Best Single Issue, Batman Adventures Holiday Special (with Paul Dini and Bruce Timm), 1995
• Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: Director, Freakazoid, 1996
• Annie Award, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2003
• Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, WALL-E, 2009
• Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Up, 2010
• National Cartoonists Society, Animated Feature Division Award, Up, 2010
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nomination, Inside Out (with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley), 2015