Layron DeJarnette

Layron DeJarnette

Director, Art Director, Character Designer Marvel, DC, WB...

Senior Art Director / 20 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Additional Character Designer / Character Designer

Hailey's on It! (2023)

Character Designer

Central Park (2020)

Additional Character Design / Character Designer

Marvel's Avengers Assemble (2013)

Character Designer

Teen Titans Go! (2013)

Character Designer / Design Clean-Up

Super Best Friends Forever (2012)

Character Designer and Animator

Rabbids: Alive & Kicking (2011)

Character Designer and Animator

Monster High: Ghoul Spirit (2011)

Character Designer / Dvd Art / Props

Monster High: New Ghoul at School (2010)

Character Designer / Props

The Ricky Gervais Show (2010)

Opening Title Sequence Animator

The Punisher (2004)

Layron DeJarnette is an Emmy nominated, award winning artist who provides animation direction, art direction, illustration, storyboards and conceptual art for several giants in the entertainment industry. He received training at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Orlando, FL and has illustrated and designed characters for Disney's THE PROUD FAMILY cartoon series and comic strip. He is currently working at Disney Television Animation as a character designer on THE PROUD FAMILY reboot for Disney+.

DeJarnette has also worked at various studios, including Marvel Animation as a character artist on AVENGERS: BLACK PANTHER'S QUEST and AVENGERS ASSEMBLE animated series. He’s also worked at Six Point Harness, as co-director of Marvel's SPIDER-MAN: MAXIMUM VENOM animated shorts and art director for Mattel’s MONSTER HIGH web series. While working at Wildbrain, Layron operated as character design supervisor, designing and animating characters for HBO’s THE RICKY GERVAIS SHOW. Other clients include Warner Bros. Animation, DC Comics, Duck Studios, Hyperion Pictures and Klasky Csupo.

Layron is a renowned GARBAGE PAIL KIDS and MARS ATTACKS artist for The Topps Company and has illustrated trading cards for the HOLLYWOOD ZOMBIES series. Other trading card companies include Upper Deck and Cryptozoic Entertainment.

He has provided caricature work for various publications and has illustrated many children’s and humorous books, including five New York Times Bestseller books for comedian Jeff Foxworthy and two books for The Wayans Bros..

DeJarnette has also instructed students in figure drawing, anatomy, illustration and animation drawing at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA and College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.

His fashion trademark is wearing colorful Kangols with matching shirts. He also manages animation company Gumboyo.com.
More information about Layron can be found on his website DeJarnetteDesigns.com.
Work History
  • Character Designer on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

    Disney Television Animation

    March 2020 - Present
  • Illustrator

    Cryptozoic Entertainment

    November 2011 - Present

    Artist for various trading card series:
    Adventure Time
    DC Battles
    Superman: The Legend
    Batman: The Legend
    DC New 52

  • Illustrator

    Upper Deck

    November 2011 - Present

    Artist for various trading card series:
    Ant-Man
    Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Marvel NOW
    Thor: The Dark World
    Iron Man 3
    Marvel Premier
    Marvel Beginnings 2
    Avengers Assemble

  • Illustrator

    The Topps Company

    December 2005 - Present

    Base card illustrator for "Garbage Pail Kids"​, "Mars Attacks" and "Hollywood Zombies" trading card series.

    Sketch card artist for various trading card series:
    Garbage Pail Kids
    Mars Attacks: Occupation
    Mars Attacks: Heritage
    Terminator Salvation

  • Owner

    DeJarnette Designs

    July 2000 - Present

    Specialize in various art styles of traditional and digital illustration, 2D animation, character design, conceptual art, storyboards, comic book art, caricature, realistic portrait and fantasy art.

  • Director

    Six Point Harness

    January 2020 - March 2020

    Director for undisclosed animation project.

  • Storyboard Artist

    Six Point Harness

    October 2019 - January 2020

    Provided storyboards and animatic for undisclosed animation project.

  • Storyboard Artist

    Six Point Harness

    September 2019 - January 2020

    Provided storyboards and animatic for undisclosed animation project.

  • Character Designer for Central Park

    Bento Box Entertainment

    July 2019 - December 2019

    Provided character designs, special poses and clean-ups using Adobe Photoshop with a Cintiq monitor.

  • Character Artist

    Marvel Entertainment

    October 2015 - June 2018

    Character Artist on Marvel's Avengers Assemble and Black Panther's Quest animated series.

  • Art Director

    Six Point Harness

    March 2014 - August 2015

    Art Director on "Barbie: Be Super"​ Motion Comics and "Monster High" web series for Mattel.

  • Character Designer & Storyboard Artist

    Six Point Harness

    2013 - March 2014
  • Character Designer

    Bento Box Entertainment

    August 2012 - September 2012
  • Character Designer for Mattel's "Monster High"

    WildBrain

    February 2012 - July 2012

    Created character designs, props and flash assets for web series.

  • Character Design Supervisor for "The Ricky Gervais Show"

    WildBrain

    April 2011 - January 2012

    Provided character design supervision, character designs, props and flash assets for season 3 of "The Ricky Gervais Show".

  • Character Designer and Animator

    WildBrain

    January 2010 - April 2011

    Provided character designs, layout, flash assets and animation for "The Ricky Gervais Show", Mattel's "Monster High", Capri Sun's "Disrespectoids", and Ubisoft's "Rabbids" and "Red Steel 2".

  • Illustrator

    The Hundreds

    2011 - 2011

    Provided illustrations for The Hundreds' Garbage Pail Kids Collection.

  • Animator for "The Ricky Gervais Show"

    WildBrain

    August 2009 - December 2009

    Provided flash animation for season one of the HBO series.

  • Flash Animator

    Wild Canary

    May 2009 - May 2009

    Provided flash assets and animation for "Mucinex" commercial spots.

  • Book Illustrator

    Random House

    March 2005 - January 2009

    Illustrated five New York Times Bestselling books for comedian Jeff Foxworthy: "The Redneck Dictionary" 1, 2 and 3, "How to Really Stink At Golf" and "How to Really Stink At Work".

  • Storyboard Artist

    Chris D'Angelo Productions

    2009 - 2009
  • Animation Director

    Duck Studios

    March 2000 - 2009

    Provided direction, storyboards and animation for commercial spots and movies titles for clients such as Marvel, Artisan Entertainment, Fox 2000, Scott Free/Deuce Three Productions and MGM/Mirage .

  • Flash animator

    Wild Canary

    June 2008 - June 2008

    Provided flash assets and animation for "Mucinex" commercial spots and Sega Entertainment’s "Sonic the Hedgehog" video game promotion.

  • Flash Animator and Storyboard Artist

    Cartoon Logic

    January 2008 - March 2008

    Provided flash animation and storyboards for LeapFrog children's DVD series.

  • Instructor

    Otis College of Art and Design

    August 2005 - January 2007

    Provided instruction through lecture, art demonstration and detailed handouts for college students in character design, composition layout, illustration techniques and storyboarding.

  • Storyboard Revisionist

    SD Entertainment

    2007 - 2007

    Provided revisions to existing storyboards for the "Care Bears" animated series.

  • Storyboard Artist

    Warner Bros. Animation

    March 2005 - July 2006

    Created rough and clean up storyboards for animated television series.

  • Book Illustrator

    Wayans Bros. Entertainment

    2006 - 2006

    Worked directly with the Wayans Bros. on designing characters and providing illustrations for humorous publications.

  • Character Designer and Children’s Book Illustrator

    Public Broadcasting Service

    2005 - 2005

    Designed characters and provided illustrations for PBS Kids website, greeting cards and children’s book.

  • Flash Animator and Storyboard Artist

    Lifetime Television

    2004 - 2004

    Provided character designs storyboards, and animation for "The Nanny Reunion" spots.

  • Character Designer and Comic Book Illustrator

    The Walt Disney Company

    March 2003 - November 2003

    Designed characters for Disney’s "The Proud Family" television series and illustrated comic book for Disney Publishing through Hyperion Pictures & Jambalaya Studios.

  • Character Designer and Animator

    Klasky Csupo

    September 2000 - March 2002

    Provided character design conceptual art, rough and clean up animation for commercial spots. Clients included: Disney, ESPN, Post and Folgers.

  • Instructor

    College for Creative Studies

    August 1996 - May 2000

    Provided instruction through lecture, art demonstration and detailed handouts for college students in human anatomy, figure drawing, quick sketch and drawing for animation.

  • Feature Animation Intern

    Walt Disney Animation Studios

    November 1994 - January 1995

    Trained with Disney Animators and staff in the production of animation.

Education
  • College for Creative Studies

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