Vincent Waller

Vincent Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, 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.

Vincent Waller
Waller in June 2019
Born
Vincent Waller

(1960-09-30) September 30, 1960
Arlington, Texas, U.S.
OccupationWriter, storyboard artist, animator, technical director
Years active1988–present
Known forThe Ren & Stimpy Show
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
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.[1][2]

Filmography

Television series
Year Title Notes
1988–1990The Real Ghostbustersstoryboard clean-up
storyboard artist
1990New Kids on the Blockstoryboard artist
Gravedale Highstoryboard artist
Attack of the Killer Tomatoesstoryboard director
1990–1991Captain Planet and the Planeteersstoryboard director
1991–1993The Ren & Stimpy Showwriter
storyboard artist
director (1992–1993)
character designer
layout supervisor
1993Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehogstoryboard artist
2 Stupid Dogsanimation director
1994The Baby Huey Showwriter
storyboard artist
The Tickstoryboard artist
1995What-a-Messstoryboard artist
Earthworm Jimstoryboard artist
1996–1997Duckmanstoryboard artist
1997Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Childoverseas animation director
1998I Am Weaselstoryboard artist
Cow and Chickenstoryboard artist
Oh Yeah! Cartoonswriter
producer
director
1999–2000
2005–present		SpongeBob SquarePantswriter (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)[1]
2001–2002The Oblongsretake director (2001)
director
2001–2002Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Lawstoryboard artist
character designer
background designer
director
art director
supervising director
2003Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"story
writer
storyboard artist
2004The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandystory
writer
storyboard artist
Evil Con Carnewriter
storyboard artist
2005The X'sstoryboard artist

Short films
Year Title Notes
1999Boo Boo Runs Wildstoryboard artist
layout artist
A Day in the Life of Ranger Smithstoryboard artist
layout artist

Feature films
Year Title Notes
2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Watercreative supervisor

References
  1. 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.


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