Louie del Carmen (born August 19, 1967) is an American animation
storyboard artist/director and illustrator. Born Manuel Luis Gonzales
del Carmen in Cavite City, Philippines, he began work in the mid-1990s
on animated series like Rugrats, Rocket Power, Invader Zim, The Grim
Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Kim Possible and The Mighty B!. During
the summer of 2007 he began working as a story artist at DreamWorks
Animation on some of their notable and successful projects like Kung
Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon 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 the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010.He is
currently a story supervisor/artist at Sony Pictures Animation in
Culver City, California.
storyboard artist/director and illustrator. Born Manuel Luis Gonzales
del Carmen in Cavite City, Philippines, he began work in the mid-1990s
on animated series like Rugrats, Rocket Power, Invader Zim, The Grim
Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Kim Possible and The Mighty B!. During
the summer of 2007 he began working as a story artist at DreamWorks
Animation on some of their notable and successful projects like Kung
Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon 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 the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010.He is
currently a story supervisor/artist at Sony Pictures Animation in
Culver City, California.
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