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Ronnie del Carmen
Ronnie del Carmen
	Del Carmen in 2014
Born	Ronaldo del Carmen; December 31, 1959 (age 65); 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 (2000–2021); Netflix (2020–present);
Children	2
Relatives	Louie del Carmen (brother)

Ronaldo del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) is a Filipino writer, director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and voice actor. 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, the first Filipino to do so.

Early life and education

Del Carmen was born in the city of Cavite in the Philippines.^[1] 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.^[2] He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising.^[2]

Career

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.^[2] 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).^[3] 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).^[3]^[4] 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.^[4] He co-directed the animated film Inside Out with Pete Docter.^[5]^[6] The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.^[7]

In April 2021, it was revealed that Del Carmen had left Pixar and is set to write and direct an animated feature film based on Philippine folklore at Netflix, although it is still in early development.^[8]

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.^[3] He has also written several comic books, including the Paper Biscuit series and And There You Are.^[9]

Personal life

Del Carmen is married and has two children.^[1] His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation.^[10] After moving in the United States, he partially became a U.S. citizen in prior of working with animation studios for over two decades.^[11]

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Story Supervisor	Story Artist	Other	Notes
1993	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	No	No	No	Yes	No	Storyboard Designer
1998	The Prince of Egypt	No	No	No	Yes	No
2000	The Road to El Dorado	No	No	Yes	No	No	Artistic Supervisor - Story
2000	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	No	No	No	Yes	No	Direct-to-video
2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	No	No	Yes	No	No	Artistic Supervisor - Story
2003	Finding Nemo	No	No	Yes	No	No
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	No	No	No	Additional	No
2007	Ratatouille	No	No	No	Yes	No
2008	WALL-E	No	No	No	Yes	No
2009	Up	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Additional Screenplay Material
2012	Brave	No	No	No	Additional	No
2013	Monsters University	No	No	No	Additional	No
2015	Inside Out	Co-Director	Original Story	No	No	Yes	Additional Voices
2017	Coco	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2018	Incredibles 2	No	No	No	No	Yes
2019	Toy Story 4	No	No	No	No	Yes
2020	Soul	No	No	No	No	Yes	Voice of Windstar, Additional Story Contributions
2023	Elemental	No	No	No	No	Yes	Voice of Bernie Lumen
2024	Inside Out 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Screenplay Material

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Production Designer	Background Designer	Other	Notes
2005	One Man Band	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Leonardo	No	No	No	Additional	No
2009	Dug's Special Mission	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2019	Smash and Grab	No	No	No	No	Yes	Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust

Television

Year	Title	Credited as
1990	Widget, the World Watcher	Storyboard artist
1991	Where's Waldo?	Storyboard artist
1992–95	Batman: The Animated Series	Storyboard artist, character designer
1993–94	Mighty Max	Character designer
1995	Freakazoid!	Director

Bibliography

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

Awards and nominations

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