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.