Derrick J. Wyatt
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 Jose Delbo. 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 is currently the art director, lead character designer, and a color stylist on the Cartoon Network-produced Transformers Animated. As a longtime Transformers fan, this is 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 eHobby guys, Beast Machines, and RID. [1]
Convention appearances
- BotCon 2008
- TFCon 2009
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 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.
External links
- Derrick J. Wyatt's blog
- Derrick Wyatt at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Derrick Wyatt at TFW2005.com
- Derrick Wyatt Unicron.com Interview Part One
