Website ronniedelcarmen.com Name Ronnie Carmen | Role Film director | |
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Full Name Ronaldo del Carmen Born December 31, 1959 (age 64) ( 1959-12-31 ) Philippines Occupation Film director, storyboard artist, designer, illustrator Books And There You Are, Paper Biscuit Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Movies Inside Out, Dug's Special Mission, Pixar Short Films Collectio Similar People Pete Docter, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Jonas Rivera, Bill Hader | ||
inside out co director ronnie del carmen on growing up in the philippines
Ronnie del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) is a Filipino animation writer, story artist, story supervisor and production designer. He co-directed the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was the story supervisor on Pixar's tenth full-length computer-animated film, Up, and directed its accompanying short film, Dug's Special Mission.
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- inside out co director ronnie del carmen on growing up in the philippines
- Pinoy inside out co director ronnie del carmen shows you how to draw anger
- Early life and education
- Film
- Comic books
- Personal life
- Awards and nominations
- References
Pinoy inside out co director ronnie del carmen shows you how to draw anger
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.
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. 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 3D computer animated comedy Inside Out with Pete Docter. The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.
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.
Personal life
Del Carmen is married with two kids. His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation.