Rene Vega

Rene Vega

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Background layout supervisor Background designer Status: Active Number of episodes: 188 Seasons active: Season 8 - Present First episode: "Hurricane Neddy" Most recent episode: "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Rene Vega is an animator for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a background layout artist and has also worked as a background layout supervisor, background designer and lead background layout artist.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" Episode – "Mountain of Madness" Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Episode – "Grade School Confidential" Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "HOMЯ" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can" Episode – "Fraudcast News" Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "Home Away from Homer" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Episode – "My Fair Laddy" Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Marge Gamer" Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" – The Simpsons Movie Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "To Cur, with Love" Episode – "Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Every Man's Dream" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Hail to the Teeth" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" Episode – "Undercover Burns" Episode – "I, Carumbus" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Manger Things" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."

Background layout supervisor

Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Grift of the Magi" Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"

Background designer

• Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
• Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
• Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
• Episode – "Homerland"
• Episode – "Labor Pains"

Lead background layout

Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "American History X-cellent" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"

Trivia

• He is the only deaf artist on the show.

External links

• Rene Vega at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Assaf Meir • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Javier Pineda • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder Former background designers Ben Anderson • Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Dillon Froelich • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Sam Ho • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • Christian Lignan • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich • Phillip O. Yeo Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • Roman Laney • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • Alex Lee • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Drew Johnson • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Jonathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan