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

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

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

Despite refusing to be hired at Games Animation in loyalty with Kricfalusi alongside Jim Smith and Richard Pursel, Waller would later be hired to the studio, albeit much later than his peers and after it had rebranded as Nickelodeon Animation Studio. He served as 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. He briefly served as a director alongside Bill Kopp for an unfinished Austin Powers animated series. 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.

Filmography

Television series

Short films

Feature films