Manuel Luis Gonzales del Carmen, known professionally as Louie del Carmen, is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and illustrator.
Career Born in Cavite City, Philippines, he would then move to Los Angeles, California and begin his animation work in 1995. He first worked at Games Animation for the series The Ren & Stimpy Show as a freelance storyboard artist for one episode, "Big Flakes". He would then work on animated series like Rugrats, Rocket Power, Invader Zim, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Kim Possible, Drawn Together, American Dragon: Jake Long, The Mighty B!, and Phineas and Ferb. In 2004, he worked as a story artist at 20th Century Fox Animation for the 2006 film, Ice Age: The Meltdown. In 2007, he would continue his position as story artist by working at DreamWorks Animation on some of their notable and successful projects like the first two Kung Fu Panda films, How to Train Your Dragon and its TV shows, Megamind and The Croods.
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 The Wayward Traveller he cites such artists as Jean Giraud (Moebius), Syd Mead, and Katsuhiro Otomo as strong influences in his work. As a follow-up to The Wayward Traveller he released Alternating Currents in the summer of 2008, featuring an all new line up of science fiction illustrations.
Staying in sci-fi genre, del Carmen 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, independently printed book served as a preview to a much larger story which he has developed into a multi-part graphic novel, starting with Steel Noodles Number 1 which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010.
Personal life Del Carmen also has two brothers that work in animation; Ronnie is a story artist, designer, illustrator and film director at Pixar, while Rick (Enrique) works as a storyboard artist and assistant director at 20th Century Animation.
Filmography
Television Year Title Notes 1995 The Ren & Stimpy Show additional storyboard design, Episode: "Big Flakes" 1995–1997 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters character design 1997–2001 Rugrats character design/director 1998–2000 The Angry Beavers character design 1999 Dilbert The New Woody Woodpecker Show assistant storyboard artist 1999–2001 Rocket Power storyboard artist/director 2000 Clerks: The Animated Series storyboard artist 2001 The Oblongs character design/storyboard artist 2001–2002 Invader Zim storyboard supervisor 2002–2006 Kim Possible storyboard artist 2002 3-South 2003 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 2005 Lilo & Stitch: The Series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy 2005–2006 Drawn Together Loonatics Unleashed The X's 2005–2007 American Dragon: Jake Long 2007–2008 The Emperor's New School 2008–2009 The Mighty B! storyboard supervisor 2009–2010 Phineas and Ferb 2010–2012 The Cleveland Show 2011–2012 Regular Show 2012 Dragons: Riders of Berk series director 2013 Dragons: Defenders of Berk
Feature film Year Title Notes 1998 The Rugrats Moviecharacter designer 2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie 2003 Rugrats Go Wild 2004 Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster storyboard artist 2005 American Dad!: Inside the CIA storyboard supervisor2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown story artist2007 Futurama: Bender's Big Score storyboard supervisor Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: Amazon Adventure 2008 Justice League: The New Frontier storyboard artist Kung Fu Panda story artist 2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto storyboard supervisor 2010 How to Train Your Dragonstory artist Megamind2011 Kung Fu Panda 2 Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension storyboard supervisor 2012 Rise of the Guardiansstory artist 2013 The Croods 2017 The Star storyboard artist Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie story artist 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2019 Abominable Frozen II storyboard artist 2022 Luck story artist 2024 Spellbound story artist
Web/internet Year Title Notes 2007 Revisioned: Tomb Raider Art direction/design, Episode: "Rising Thaumopolis"
Bibliography Rugrats: Pizza Cats (1999 - ) Simon & Schuster Rugrats: Oh Brother! (1999 - ) Simon & Schuster Rugrats: Be My Valentine (2000 - ) Simon & Schuster Random Anomalies (2006) self-published The Wayward Traveller: Snapshots from Alternate Worlds (2006) self-published 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) Steel Noodles: A Slice of Heaven (2007) self-published Muerto Mambo (2008) (Hot Mexican Love Comics) (Independently published Anthology) Alternating Currents (2008) self-published DRAWING INSPIRATION: The Visual Artist at Work (2010) (Delmar Cengage Learning) Steel Noodles Number 1 (2010) self-published Girl n Robot: Boomtown (2011) self-published Steel Noodles Number 2 (2012) self-published MUSE Volume 1 (2013) self-published
References
External links Louie del Carmen website Artist Blog