Carter Goodrich is an American animator at DreamWorks Animation.
Career[]
Carter Goodrich has illustrated sixteen New Yorker covers and was the lead character designer for Brave, Ratatouille (for which he won the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award for character design), and Despicable Me. He has designed characters for many other beloved animated films, including Finding Nemo; Monsters, Inc; and Open Season. Of the films he has worked on, four have gone on to win Academy Awards. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, he has twice been awarded the gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York. His picture books include We Forgot Brock!, Say Hello to Zorro!, Zorro Gets an Outfit, Mister Bud Wears the Cone, A Creature Was Stirring, and The Hermit Crab. Carter lives in Los Angeles, California. Be sure to visit Carter at CarterGoodrich.com.
Filmography[]
- Jetsons: The Movie (1990) - Character Designer
- Toy Story (1995) - Character Designer (uncredited)
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Character Designer
- Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) (Video) - Character Designer
- Shrek (2001) - Pre-Production: Los Angeles (uncredited)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Visual Development Artist
- Finding Nemo (2003) - Visual Development Artist
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) - Character Designer
- Home on the Range (2004) - Additional Visual Development Artist
- Open Season (2006) - Character Designer / Art Director
- Ratatouille (2007) - Character Design
- Open Season 2 (2008) - Character Designer
- Aliens in the Attic (2009) - Character Consultant
- Despicable Me (2010) - Character Designer
- Open Season 3 (2010) - Character Designer (uncredited)
- The Lorax (2012) - Character Designer
- Brave (2012) - Development Artist
- Hotel Transylvania (2012) - Character Designer
- The Croods (2013) - Character Designer
- Despicable Me 2 (2013) - Character Designer
- Minions (2015) - Additional Character Designer
- Top Cat Begins (2015) - Character Designer
- Animal Crackers (2017) - Character Designer
- Despicable Me 3 (2017) - Character Designer
- Coco (2017) - Character Designer
- Smallfoot (2018) - Character Design Consultant
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) - Character Designer
- Wonder Park (2019) - Additional Visual Development (uncredited)
- Wish (2020) - Character Designer
- Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) - Character Designer
- Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) - Additional Character Designer
- Just Super (2022) - Character Designer
- The Amazing Maurice (2022) - Character Designer
- Rally Road Racers (2023) - Character Designer
- Leo (2023) - Character Designer
- Despicable Me 4 (2024) - Character Designer