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. 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.
Career[]
Del Carmen at the San Diego Comic Con 2009
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 animated film 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 animated feature film based on Philippine folklore at Netflix, although it is still in early development.
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 and has two children. His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation. After moving in the United States, he partially became a U.S. citizen in prior of working with animation studios for over two decades.
Filmography[]
Feature films[]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Story supervisor |
Story artist |
Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Storyboard Designer |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Artistic Supervisor - Story |
| Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Direct-to-video | |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Artistic Supervisor - Story |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | ||
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2009 | Up | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:Yes | Additional Screenplay Material |
| 2012 | Brave | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Template:Partial | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Additional Voices |
| 2017 | Coco | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Pixar Senior Creative Team |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | |
| 2020 | Soul | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Voice of Windstar, Additional Story Contributions |
| 2023 | Elemental | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Voice of Bernie Lumen |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Additional Screenplay Material |
Short films[]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Production designer |
Background designer |
Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | One Man Band | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | |
| 2009 | Leonardo | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| Dug's Special Mission | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | ||
| 2019 | Smash and Grab | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Credited as |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Widget, the World Watcher | Storyboard artist |
| 1991 | Where's Waldo? | |
| 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