Vincent Waller

Vincent Waller
Waller in June 2019
Born	Vincent Waller (1960-09-30) September 30, 1960 Arlington, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Illustrator, storyboard artist, director, technical director, voice actor, writer
Years active	1988–present
Known for	The Ren & Stimpy Show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy SpongeBob SquarePants

Vincent Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American writer, artist, animator, storyboard artist, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable ones being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.

The Ren & Stimpy Show

Waller was a writer and director for The Ren & Stimpy Show during the Spümcø era. He directed the popular episodes "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" and "Big Baby Scam".

Other shows

Waller produced and directed shorts for Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons. He co-created What is Funny? with Bill Burnett, as well as Pete Patrick: Private Investigator and Let's Talk Turkey. He also adapted the Harvey Kurtzman comic Hey Look! into a pilot episode for the series.

SpongeBob SquarePants and other work

Waller was a writer for animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants during the last half of the series' first season, leaving after the first season was completed. Waller returned to the series as technical director for the series' fourth season, and supervised the first season of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. He worked on The Oblongs as a director, and later as re-take director. He was also a writer and storyboard artist on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. Towards the end of the fourth season, Waller was promoted to creative director of SpongeBob, replacing Derek Drymon. In 2015, Waller was promoted to supervising producer along with Marc Ceccarelli, succeeding Paul Tibbitt. The creative director position was then eliminated.

Waller served as the creative supervisor for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. He will also serve as executive producer and showrunner of the upcoming SpongeBob prequel series, Kamp Koral.

Filmography

Television series

Year	Title	Notes
1988–1990	The Real Ghostbusters	storyboard clean-up storyboard artist
1990	New Kids on the Block	storyboard artist
	Gravedale High	storyboard artist
	Attack of the Killer Tomatoes	storyboard director
1990–1991	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	storyboard director
1991–1993	The Ren & Stimpy Show	writer storyboard artist director (1992–1993) character designer layout supervisor executive producer
1993	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog	storyboard artist
	2 Stupid Dogs	animation director
1994	The Baby Huey Show	writer storyboard artist
	The Tick	storyboard artist
1995	What-a-Mess	storyboard artist
	Earthworm Jim	storyboard artist
1996–1997	Duckman	storyboard artist
1997	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	overseas animation director
1998	I Am Weasel	storyboard artist
	Cow and Chicken	storyboard artist
	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	writer producer director
1999–2000 2005–present	SpongeBob SquarePants	writer (2000; 2005; 2011–2012) storyboard artist (2000) storyboard director (2005; 2011–2012) creative director (2005–2015) showrunner (2015–present) supervising producer (2015–2018) Voice role: Customer (2017, episode "Lost and Found") co-executive producer (2018–present)
2001–2002	The Oblongs	retake director (2001) director
2001–2002	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	storyboard artist character designer background designer director art director supervising director
2003	Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"	story writer storyboard artist
2004	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	story writer storyboard artist
	Evil Con Carne	writer storyboard artist
2005	The X's	storyboard artist

Short films

Year	Title	Notes
1999	Boo Boo Runs Wild	storyboard artist layout artist
	A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith	storyboard artist layout artist

Feature films

Year	Title	Notes
2015	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	creative supervisor

External links

• Incoherent Thought: Vincent Waller's Blog
• Vincent Waller at IMDb