Layron DeJarnette is an American illustrator, director, art director, character designer, storyboard artist, animator and caricaturist. 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 Mattel. and character design supervisor on The Ricky Gervais Show (TV series) for HBO. He is a Garbage Pail Kids artist for Topps and trading card illustrator for the Upper Deck Company and Cryptozoic Entertainment.
Early life
DeJarnette was born in Detroit Michigan. He majored in Illustration at The College for Creative Studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Career
After graduating from The College for Creative Studies, DeJarnette worked at television station WKBD-TV in Southfield, Michigan as a graphic designer and illustrator, then trained at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios in Orlando, Florida. He later became an instructor at the College for Creative Studies, teaching Figure Drawing, Anatomy, Illustration and Animation Drawing. In 2000 DeJarnette relocated to Los Angeles, California to provide work for various studios in the entertainment industry such as: Disney, Warner Bros. Animation, Nickelodeon, Marvel, DC Comics, Mattel, Hasbro, WildBrain, 6 Point Harness, Bento Box Entertainment, ABC, FOX, Lionsgate, LeapFrog, Aniplex, Sega, Ubisoft, Duck Studios, Hyperion Pictures, Klasky Csupo.
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 (TV series) (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 (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 (TV series) (2016-2019) (character artist, clean up artist) Central Park (TV series) (2019) (character designer) Spider-Man (2017 TV series) Marvel Venom Files: Captain Marvel (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) Spider-Man (2017 TV series) Marvel Venom Files: Ghost-Spider (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) Spider-Man (2017 TV series) Marvel Venom Files: Miles Morales (2019 animated short) (Co-director, storyboard artist and character designer) Spider-Man (2017 TV series) 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 film) (opening title sequence animator) I'm Rick James Documentary (2009) (animator) 30 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 Motion Comic (2010) (character designer, illustrator) Barbie 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)