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Vincent Waller

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Vincent Waller
Waller in 2024
Born
Vincent Paul Waller

(1960-09-30) September 30, 1960 (age 64)
Occupation(s)Animator, storyboard artist, writer, technical director
Years active1988–present
Known forThe Ren & Stimpy Show
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
SpongeBob SquarePants

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

The Ren & Stimpy Show

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Initially introduced to series creator John Kricfalusi via an acquaintanceship with Bob Camp, Waller was hired at Spümcø in 1990 to work on The Ren & Stimpy Show. A prominent storyboarder and layout artist during the series' first season, he was promoted to a director the following year and helmed "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" and "Big Baby Scam" for the second season before departing the show alongside Kricfalusi in 1992. Waller would continue to collaborate with Kricfalusi throughout the following decade, directing "Onward and Upward", the first episode of Ren and Stimpy's short-lived adult-oriented revival, in 2003.

Other shows

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Waller produced and directed shorts for Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons. He co-created What is Funny? (whose main character, Slap T. Pooch later appeared in the logo of Nickelodeon Movies for the intro of The Rugrats Movie) 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

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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 Cartoon Network's 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 and showrunner along with Marc Ceccarelli, succeeding Paul Tibbitt. This resulted in the retirement of the creative director position.

Waller served as the creative supervisor for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. He also serves as co-executive producer and showrunner of the SpongeBob prequel series, Kamp Koral.[1][2]

He briefly served as a director alongside Bill Kopp for an unfinished Austin Powers animated series.[3][4]

He had also briefly worked at Marvel Comics as an inker and penciller for comics including Savage Tales, The Savage Sword of Conan and Mark Hazzard: Merc.[5]

Filmography

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Television series

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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
story
director (1992–1993)
character designer
layout supervisor
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 Nightmare Ned writer (episode "The Dentist")
storyboard artist
1997 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child overseas animation director
1998 I Am Weasel storyboard artist (episode "I Am Crybaby")
Cow and Chicken storyboard artist (episode "Buffalo Gals")
Oh Yeah! Cartoons writer
producer
director
Voice actor
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 actor
co-executive producer (2018–2022)[1]
executive producer (2022–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
storyboard artist
2004 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy story
storyboard artist
Evil Con Carne story (episode "Hector, King of the Britons")
storyboard artist (episode "Hector, King of the Britons")
2005 The X's storyboard artist
2006 Happy Tree Friends storyboard artist (episode "Doggone It")
2021–2024 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years developer
co-executive producer
theme song composer
2021-present The Patrick Star Show creator
developer
co-executive producer

Short films

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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

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Year Title Notes
1997 Hercules story artist
1998 Antz story artist
2001 Monkeybone story artist
visual development artist
Monsters, Inc. story artist
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water creative supervisor
2024 Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie executive producer

References

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  1. ^ a b Owen, Rob (July 10, 2019). "Behind the Business of 'SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout'". Variety. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (June 4, 2019). "'SpongeBob SquarePants' CG-Animated Prequel Series 'Kamp Koral' Greenlighted By Nickelodeon". deadline.com. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Kaplan, Don (May 4, 1999). "YEAH, BABY! HBO SINKS TEETH INTO 'AUSTIN POWERS' CARTOON". New York Post. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  4. ^ "The show that never was. Austin Powers. The day I started (along with 8 other directors) Mike Myers changed his mind. We spent the next 6 months playing Golden Eye for a great deal of money. It worked out ok, Thank you Mike Myers".
  5. ^ "Vincent Waller - Comic Book Creator".
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