Layron DeJarnette is an American

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. He is best known as a character designer on Disney's ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'', art director on the ''Monster High'' web series for

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. and character design supervisor on ''The Ricky Gervais Show'' for

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. He is a

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artist for

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and trading card illustrator for the

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Early life

DeJarnette was born in

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. He received a

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in illustration from the

College for Creative Studies The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a private art school in Detroit, Michigan. It enrolls more than 1,400 students and focuses on arts education. The college is also active in offering art education to children through its Community Arts ...

Career

DeJarnette began his career working as a graphic designer and illustrator at the

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television station in

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, after which he trained at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios in

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. He later became an instructor at the College for Creative Studies, teaching Figure Drawing, Anatomy, Illustration and Animation Drawing. In 2000, DeJarnette relocated to

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to provide work for various studios in the entertainment industry, including

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Klasky Csupo Klasky-Csupo, Inc. ( ) is an American animation studio located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1982 by producer Arlene Klasky and her then-husband, Hungarian animator Gábor Csupó (hence the company's name) in a spare room of th ...

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Filmography

Television

* ''The Proud Family'' (2001) Season 2 "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby" (character designer) * ''Loonatics Unleashed'' (2005-2007) (storyboard artist) * ''The Ricky Gervais Show'' (2010- 2012) (character designer, animator, season three character design supervisor) * ''Classical Baby'' (2001-2019) (character designer, storyboard artist) * ''Monster High: New Ghoul at School'' (2010) (character designer, animator) * ''Monster High: Fright On!'' (2011) (character designer, animator) * ''

Super Best Friends Forever ''DC Nation Shorts'' is an animated series of shorts featuring characters from DC Comics from a variety of different titles that aired on Cartoon Network on Saturdays at 10/9c. Production In March 2012, the shorts premiered as part of the '' DC ...

'' (2012) (character designer, character clean up artist) * ''Storage Wars'' - Season 5 "All's Well That Urns Well" (2013) (himself - Garbage Pail Kids artist, appraiser) * ''Fresh Beat Band of Spies'' (Series pitch) (2013) (storyboard artist, animatic artist) * '' Angry Little Asian Girl'' (2014) (animator) * ''Avengers Assemble'' (2016-2019) (character artist, clean up artist) *

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(2019) (character designer) * ''Spider-Man'' (2017) Marvel Venom Files: Captain Marvel (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) * ''Spider-Man'' (2017) Marvel Venom Files: Ghost-Spider (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) * ''Spider-Man'' (2017) Marvel Venom Files: Miles Morales (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) * ''Spider-Man'' (2017) Marvel's The Secret History Of Venom (2020 animated short) (Co-director, art director, storyboard artist, character designer and layout artist) * ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'' (2022 -) (character designer) * ''Hailey's On It!'' (2022 -) (character designer)

Monster High webisodes

* Monster High webisode Volume 1 (2010 - 2011) (character designer, animator) * Monster High webisode Volume 2 (2011) (character designer, animator) * Monster High webisode Volume 3 (2012 - 2013) (character designer, animator) * Monster High webisode Volume 4 (2013 - 2014) (character designer, animator) * Monster High webisode Volume 5 (2014 - 2015) (art director, character designer, animator) * Monster High webisode Volume 6 (2016) (art director, character designer, animator) * Monster High promotional and special webisodes (2011) (character designer, animator)

Films

* ''The Punisher'' (2004) (opening title sequence animator) * ''I'm Rick James'' Documentary (2009) (animator) * 3''0 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story'' (2016) (Himself)

Animated DVDs

*LeapFrog Enterprises: Sing-Along Read-Along (2008) (animator, storyboard artist) *LeapFrog Enterprises: Sing and Learn With Us! (2011) (animator, storyboard artist) *LeapFrog Enterprises: The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park (2011) (storyboard artist)

Motion Comics

Red Steel 2 ''Red Steel 2'' is a first-person action video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft. It is a standalone sequel to '' Red Steel''. Released worldwide for the Wii video game console in March 2010, the game received generally p ...

Motion Comic (2010) (character designer, illustrator) *

Barbie Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959. The toy was based on the German Bild Lilli doll, Bild Lilli doll which Hand ...

Motion Comics: Be Super (9 episodes) (2015) (co-director, character designer, storyboard revisionist, illustrator) * Barbie Motion Comics: Raise Your Voice (9 episodes) (2015) (co-director, character designer, storyboard revisionist, illustrator) *Barbie Motion Comics: Puppy Adventures (4 episodes) (2015) (co-director, character designer, storyboard revisionist, illustrator)

Illustration Works

The Topps Company

: All New Series 5 Trading Cards (2006) (base card illustrator) *

: All New Series 6 Trading Cards (2007) (base card illustrator) *

: All New Series 7 Trading Cards (2007) (base card illustrator) * Hollywood Zombies Trading Cards (2007) (base card illustrator) *

: Flashback Series 1 Trading Cards (2010) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

: Flashback Series 2 Trading Cards (2010) (sketch card artist) *

: Flashback Series 3 Trading Cards (2011) (sketch card artist) *

: Brand New Series 1 Trading Cards (2012) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

Mars Attacks ''Mars Attacks'' is a science fiction-themed trading card series released in 1962 by Topps. The cards feature artwork by science fiction artists Wally Wood and Norman Saunders. The cards form a story arc, which tells of the invasion of Earth by ...

: Heritage Trading Cards (2012) (sketch card artist) *

: Brand New Series 2 Trading Cards (2013) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

: Brand New Series 3 Trading Cards (2013) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

: Mini Cards (2013) (sketch card artist) * 2014

: Series 1 Trading Cards (2014) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) * 2014

: Series 2 Trading Cards (2014) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) * 2015

: Series 1 Trading Cards (2015) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

: 30th Anniversary Trading Cards (2015) *

: American As Apple Pie In Your Face Trading Cards (2016) (base card illustrator, sketch card artist) *

: Occupation (2016) (sketch card artist) * Dinosaurs Attack! (2016) (sketch card artist)

Upper Deck Entertainment

* Marvel

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Trading Cards (2012) * Marvel Beginnings 2 Trading Cards (2012) * Marvel Premier Trading Cards (2012) *

Iron Man 3 ''Iron Man 3'' is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008) an ...

Trading Cards (2013) *

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Trading Cards (2013) * Thor: The Dark World Trading Cards (2014) * 2014

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Goodwin Champions "Monster" Trading Cards (2014) * 2015

Goodwin Champions "Monster" Trading Cards (2015) * 2015

Goodwin Champions "Game Of Chance" Trading Cards (2015) * Avengers: Age of Ultron Trading Cards (2015) *

Ant-Man Ant-Man is the name of several superheroes appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history Created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby, his first appearance was in '' Tales to Astonish'' #27 (January 1962) as Dr. Henry ...

Trading Cards (2015) * 2016

Goodwin Champions "Supernaturals" Trading Cards (2016)

Cryptozoic Entertainment

New 52 Trading Cards (2012) (sketch card artist) *

Batman Batman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on M ...

: The Legend Trading Cards (2013) (sketch card artist) *

Superman Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, which first appeared in the comic book ''Action Comics'' Action Comics 1, #1, published in the United States on April 18, 1938.The copyright date of ''Action Comics ...

: The Legend Trading Cards (2013) (sketch card artist) *

Battle Trading Cards (2014) (sketch card artist) *

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and co-produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn the Human, Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...

Trading Cards (2014) (sketch card artist)

Books

* It's My Life: The Guide To Friendship (2006) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary (2006) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II (2006) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary III (2007) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary (2008) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's How To Really Stink At Golf (2008) (Illustrator) * Jeff Foxworthy's How To Really Stink At Work (2008) (Illustrator) * The Wayans Brothers: 101 Ways to Know It's Time to Get Out of Your Mama's House (2008) (Illustrator) * The Wayans Brothers: 101 Ways to Know You're a Golddigger (2009) (Illustrator) * Sing Along with Leedo and Booey (2014) (Illustrator)

Art exhibitions

Gallery 1988, (Los Angeles, CA)

*Under The Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Art Show (2010) *Another Dimension, Twilight Zone Art Show (2010)

Lulubell Toy Bodega (Tucson, AZ)

*Toy (Re)collections Robot Art Show (2010)

Meltdown (Los Angeles, CA)

*Meat! Art Show (2011)

Q-Pop (Los Angeles, CA)

*BEAM ME UP: Star Trek Art Show (2013) *James Bond: 50 Years of 007 Art Celebration (2013)

Chuck Jones Gallery (San Diego, CA)

*What's Up Doc? The Animation Art of

Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, painter, voice actor and filmmaker, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts. He ...

, Smithsonian Art Preview ft. Girls Drawin' Girls &

(2014)

Awards

* Promax BDA International Bronze Award, Illustrator,

50, Detroit Tiger Billboards (1996) *Telly Award, Ohio Lottery Animated Commercial, Duck Studios (2004)

References

External links

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