Alan Caldwell is an American storyboard artist and animation director based in Burbank, California. He has worked in the animation industry since the late 1990s, contributing to dozens of television series and animated films across Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, Hasbro Studios, and Disney Television Animation.1 He is particularly known for superhero and action-adventure animation, and contributed to Extreme Ghostbusters in 1997 as both a director and storyboard artist.
Career
Caldwell entered the animation industry in the late 1990s at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he spent roughly a decade working as storyboard artist and director. During that period he contributed to Godzilla: The Series (1998), Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003), among other Sony productions.1 His early Sony work also included Extreme Ghostbusters (1997, see below).
After Sony, Caldwell built an extensive record at Warner Bros. Animation and related studios, working on Teen Titans, The Batman (2005), various Scooby-Doo productions, and ¡Mucha Lucha!. He contributed storyboards to The Boondocks and to The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010) for Marvel Animation, as well as the first season of Young Justice (2010) for Cartoon Network and Warner Bros.1
Caldwell completed a significant run for Hasbro Studios on its Transformers animated universe. On Transformers: Prime he storyboarded 13 episodes between 2012 and 2013, including "Darkness Rising, Part 4," "Orion Pax, Part 2," and the TV movie "Predacons Rising." He also contributed to Transformers: Rescue Bots (3 episodes, including "Shake Up" and "Bot to the Future") and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (7 episodes, including the two-part pilot and "True Colors"). Additional Hasbro credits include G.I. Joe: Renegades.2
In September 2015 Caldwell joined Disney Television Animation, where he has since worked across a range of productions including Firebuds, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, High Guardian Spice, Chicago Party Aunt, and Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures (2023). Concurrent with his Disney work, he contributed to Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters (Netflix/Hasbro, 2017) as both storyboard artist and episode director, served as storyboard director on Invincible (Amazon Prime Video, 2021), and storyboarded the DC animated feature Justice Society: World War II (2021).1