Derrick J. Wyatt

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Wyatt Toys kid...

Derrick J. Wyatt (10 August, 1972- ) is an American artist and character designer from Paw Paw, Michigan. He attended the Joe Kubert school of art in New Jersey, where one of his teachers was José Delbo. Another was Kim DeMulder! Later on, he received an internship at Spumco in California, which would graduate to full-time employment with the company. Derrick eventually left Spumco, subsequently getting a job at Warner Bros. Animation, where he worked on the comedy/wrestling series Mucha Lucha as a designer. Other opportunities opened up for him while at Warners, where he would join the staff of Teen Titans and Legion of Super Heroes as a full-time character designer.

He was the art director, lead character designer, and a color stylist on the Cartoon Network-produced Transformers Animated. As a longtime Transformers fan, this was a dream come true for him.

How big a fan he is can be seen in his 2009 April Fool's blog, where he did a poster of new characters in Season 3 and then deliberately designed and drew in fake characters so you could have fun guessing which were the real ones. The poster is a fan's delight with Animated versions of latter-G1 Mini Cars, Japanese G1 figures, BotCon and e-Hobby guys, Beast Machines, and RID. [1]

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2008
• TFCon 2009
• BotCon 2009

Merchandise

Mighty Muggs

Living the dream!

• Derrick J. Wyatt (2009)

This super deformed vinyl Derrick J. Wyatt figure uses the standard Mighty Muggs body template, with swivel joints in his neck and limbs. It was released by Hasbro in an extremely limited edition of... one. That one figure is now in the possession of its namesake. Sorry, collectors!

Notes

• As a self-confessed fan of the original Transformers cartoon, Derrick slips many elements from it into his own design work on Animated, such as almost all Animated Autobots having blue eyes.
• Meanwhile, Derrick is also a self-confessed fan of '70s game shows.
• According to an interview, Derrick's favorite Transformers have always been "Swindle, Ratbat, Galvatron, and Waspinator". Well, that's three down...
• Derrick longs to have Animated feature appearances/homages for Lord Chumley and Slizardo.
• On the Transformers Animated season 2 DVD set, Derrick provides episode commentary on "Mission Accomplished" and "Garbage In, Garbage Out" alongside Marty Isenberg, Eric Siebenaler, and Matt Youngberg.
• Derrick occasionally influences this very wiki.
• Derrick prefers the characterizations of the original cartoon over the Marvel comics. Well, nobody's perfect.
• According to a series of Twitter messages...
  • Derrick believes that Charles Nelson Reilly was the greatest actor the world will ever know. [2]
  • Derrick has a pair of guinea pigs, and the classic short "Pigs Is Pigs" is his favorite Disney cartoon of all time. [3]
  • Derrick dislikes ska, reggae, and olives.[4]
  • In terms of Transformers, he dislikes Beachcomber, Armada Scavenger, and "comic book grey-colored Galvatron" (but just the coloring).[5].
  • Oh, and he dislikes Primus, too. [6]
• He would really like you all to know that he only did, like, one character design for Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, which he thinks was an old woman in a rocking chair. Seriously, he didn't do anything else! You can stop bringing up the fact he worked on it! Please? Pretty please?
• Derrick's Animated character model — essentially Isaac Sumdac with a new head — was scheduled to appear in Human Error, Part I, in the scene with Animated versions of Hydra, Cancer and Marty Isenberg. Unfortunately, it didn't make it in to the final scene. Boo!
• His head is shiny.

External links

• Derrick J. Wyatt's blog
• Derrick J. Wyatt's Twitter feed
• Derrick Wyatt at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Derrick Wyatt at TFW2005.com
• Derrick Wyatt Unicron.com Interview:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2