Derrick J. Wyatt

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Living the dream!

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.

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BotCon 2008

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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.
According to an interview, Derrick's favorite Transformers have always been "Swindle, Ratbat, Galvatron and Waspinator". Well, that's two down...
Derrick longs to have Animated feature appearances/homages for Lord Chumley and Slizardo.
Derrick occasionally influences this very wiki.
Derrick prefers the characterizations of the original cartoon over the Marvel comics. Well, nobody's perfect.