Rick Salonga

Rick Salonga

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Backround cleanup artist Character layout artist Status: Active Number of episodes: 200 Seasons active: Season 2 - 5, 16 - Present First short: The Good, the Bart, and the Loki Most recent short: Welcome to the Club First episode: "Treehouse of Horror" Most recent episode: "When Nelson Met Lisa" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Rick Salonga, also credited as Rick Solonga, is an animator. He currently serves as a character layout artist for The Simpsons and has previously served as a background cleanup artist.

Credits

Background cleanup

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" Episode – "Dancin' Homer" Episode – "Dead Putting Society" Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" Episode – "Bart the Daredevil" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" Episode – "The Way We Was" Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" Episode – "Principal Charming" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" Episode – "Old Money" Episode – "Brush with Greatness" Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book" Episode – "Blood Feud" Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" Episode – "When Flanders Failed" Episode – "Bart the Murderer" Episode – "Homer Defined" Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" Episode – "Flaming Moe's" Episode – "I Married Marge" Episode – "Lisa the Greek" Episode – "Homer Alone" Episode – "Bart the Lover" Episode – "Separate Vocations" Episode – "Black Widower" Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" Episode – "Kamp Krusty" Special – Do the Bartman

Background cleanup supervisor

• Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"

• Episode – "Lisa's Pony"
• Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"

• Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"

• Episode – "Radio Bart"

• Episode – "Homer at the Bat"

• Episode – "Dog of Death"
• Episode – "Colonel Homer"

• Episode – "The Otto Show"

• Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"

Character layout

Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" Episode – "Deep Space Homer" Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" Episode – "Future-Drama" Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Marge Gamer" – The Simpsons Movie THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Episode – "Any Given Sundance" Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" Episode – "Take My Life, Please" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Father Knows Worst" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Homer the Whopper" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "American History X-cellent" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Homerland" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "Simpsorama" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "Fatzcarraldo" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "A Father's Watch" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" Episode – "King Leer" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "Undercover Burns" Episode – "I, Carumbus" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "Three Dreams Denied" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Episode – "Bart's in Jail!" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers" Episode – "The Longest Marge" Episode – "Marge the Meanie" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "The King of Nice" Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki Special – Welcome to the Club

Background layout

• Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"

Retake character layout

• Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"

Lead character layout

Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Moonshine River" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "The Winter of His Content" Episode – "Days of Future Future" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" THOH – "Not It" Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa"

Animatic layout

• Episode – "Homer the Father"

• Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"

• Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"

• Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
• Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
• Episode – "The Great Simpsina"

External links

• Rick Salonga at the Internet Movie Database

Animatic layout artists and Animatic editors

Former animatic layout artists John Achenbach • Edwin E. Aguilar • Jung A Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Lejon Douroux • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Yelena Geodakyan • Angela Gilman • Matthew Herbert • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Istvan Majoros • Matt Mantel • James Marquez • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Mike Morris • Mary O. Natale • Rob Oliver • Steve Pilapil • Chance Raspberry • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • Rick Salonga • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee Animatic editors Taylor Allen • Martin Alvarez • Jennifer Dolce • Roger Injarusorn • Sean Isroelit • Monica Lee • Eric Loudon • Heliodoro Salvatierra • Mark Scheib • Rob Schulbaum

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 • 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 • Alex J. Lee • 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

Character layout artists

Current character layout artists Jung A Anderson • Michael Edwin Atniel • Norman P. Auble • Timothy Bailey • Jody Brooks • Oscar Cervantes • Greg Checketts • Joung Kyu Choi • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Manny DeGuzman • Lejon Douroux • Adam Dykstra • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Natalie J. Fosdick • Yelena Geodakyan • Steven Pierre Gordon • Colin Heck • Matthew Herbert • Daniela Hoyos • Alexander Jenson • Geoffrey Johnson • Jeff Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Tina Kügler • Christianna Lang Daley • Eric Lara • Anna Latzer • Davy Lauterbach • Ely Lester • Michael Ludy • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Tanja Majerus • Andy Manley • Maeve McGrath • Drew McPhail • Mary O. Natale • Tuan Nguyen • Rob Oliver • Oscar Pangestu • Lena Podesta • Silvia Pompei • Alex Que • Arlyne Ramirez • Nik Ranieri • Thomas E. Richner • Ryan Rivette • Jeremy Robinson • Dustin Romero • Dane Romley • Eddie Rosas • Rick Salonga • Herman Sharaf • Jiyoon Shin • Kamoon Song • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Debbie J. Spafford • Michael Tran • Toni Tysen • Paul Wee Former character layout artists Brad Ableson • John Achenbach • Albert Acosta • Edwin E. Aguilar • Victor E. Almaguer • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Tony Anselmo • John Aoshima • Martin Archer • Craig Armstrong • Stephanie Arnett • Marcos Asprec • Orlando Baeza • Brenda Banks • Tibor Belay • Anthony Bell • John Berado • Sue Bielenberg • Mark Borok • Jeannette Bose • Scott Brutz • Tricia Buchanan-Benson • Rufino Camacho • Nathan Cash • Shaun Cashman • Kendis Chase • Shavonne Cherry • Moon Choi • Utit Choomuang • Craig Clark • Jeff Clark • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Casey Coffey • Mark Colangelo • Pam Cooke • Tom Coppola • Noel Cox • Caroline Cruikshank • Kirin Daughtery • Tim Decker • Gavin Dell • Susan Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Orlando Distor • Arthur Ebuen • Ernesto Elicanal • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Istvan Fellner • Bonnie Fishbon • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Hunilla Fodor • Mike Fontanelli • Julie Forte • Sandra Frame • Bryan Francis • Cynthia French • Adriana Galvez • Philip Garcia • Raul Garcia • Tricia Garcia • Frederick J. Gardner III • Jonathan Gebhart • Brett Gehrs • Ed Ghertner • Neal Goldstein • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Roger Gonzales • Joshua David Gorczyca • Gordon Stanfield Animation • Lucas Gray • Orlando Gumatay • Ted Hanik • Mary Hanley • Joe Healy • Lynne Healy • Krystal Hernandez • Seth Hippen • Bill Ho • Jennie Hoffer • James Huang • Chris Huicochea • Brian Iles • Kelly Spencer James • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kausler • Seth Kearsley • Ernest Keen • Dean Kelly • Celia Kendrick • Eric S. Keyes • Andy Kim • S.J. Kim • Sooan Kim • Andi Klein • Bert Klein • Julianna Korsborn • Nancy Kruse • Jeff LaFlamme • Ben Lane • Phil Langone • Boowan Lee • Grant Lee • Ashley Lenz • Bob Logan • Jon Lopez • Miguel Lopez • Chris Loudon • Greg Lovell • Matt Luhn • Jeffrey Lynch • Jason Magness • Istvan Majoros • Maryann Malcomb • Anna Maltese • Richard Manginsay • Tammy Manis • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • James Marquez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Linda McCall • Gary McCarver • Steve Mealue • Andre Medina • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Noah Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Leo Moran • Jeanette Moreno King • Mike Morris • Sarge Morton • Erik Moxcey • Jeff Myers • Kimberly Narsete • Matthew Nastuk • Joey Nilges • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Eduardo Olivares • Eric Oliver • Kenji Ono • Tyler Pagan • Howy Parkins • Sanjay Patel • John Pearson • Jack Perkins • Raymond S. Persi • Jeff Pidgeon • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • Michael Polvani • Teresa Potter-Heimark • Dan Povenmire • Julius Preite • Natasha Presler-Wicke • James Purdum • Chance Raspberry • Bill Recinos • Dexter Reed • Jordan Reichek • Stephen Reis • Jay Robinson • Art Roman • Christian Roman • Sondra Roy • Aaron Rozenfeld • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • David Salvador • Alberto Santiago • Sydney Sata • Matthew Schofield • Andy Schuhler • Melody Severns • Peter Shin • Tony Siruno • Kevin M. Smith • Steve Smith • Ethan Spaulding • Julie Spencer • Eric Stefani • Aimee Steinberger • Jennifer Stillwell • Charlotte Stout • Joshua Taback • Betty Tang • Cyndi Tang • Lewis Tate • Noel Taylor • Tommy Tejeda • Gary Terry • Erick T. Tran • Elan Trinidad • Tuck Tucker • Bob Tyler • Brad Vandergrift • Gregg Vanzo • Viorel Voronca • Dusty Wakefield • Jason D. Warnesky • Mark Watts • JC Wegman • Brian Wells • Tom Winkler • Byun Kwang Won • Anthony Wong • Thomas Woodall • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi • Gary Yap • Jung-A Yoo • Young Yoo • Jordan Young • Kathy Zielinski One time character layout artists Scott Alberts • Charles Alleneck • Ed Bell • Brad Bird • Clint Bond • Ian Chen • Kevin Davis • Eric Elder • Marvin Ervin • Brad Forbush • Steve Garcia • Klay Hall • Sam Ho • Jeff Howard • Chris Hubbard • Nora Johnson • Jason Katz • Jang Woo Lee • Derek Lestrange • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Bob Miller • Chris Mitchell • Angel Pastrana • Charles Ragins • Marc Ratner • Christopher Reccardi • Domingo Rivera • Stephen Robertson • Amy Rychlick • Ericka Schwartz • Elaina Scott • Alan Smart • Chad Stewart • Matt Sullivan • Eric Thomas • Janice Tolentino • Arthur Valencia • Jim Van der Keyl • Barry Vodos • Dave Warren • Celia Weiss Other character layout artists Ivaylo Anguelov • David Au • Abe Audish • Matthias Bauer • Wayne Carlisi • Roberto Casale • Kathi Castillo • Rick Farmiloe • Mike Girard • Rick Hoppe • Jay Jackson • Cathy Jones • Megan Kelly • Craig Kemplin • Jiwook Kim • Erik Kuska • Lois Lee • Joseph Lowe • Carlos Lutterbach • Leonardo Matsuda • Frank Molieri • Steven Muller • David Nam • Phillip Pignotti • Chris Rutkowski • David Silverman • Chris Minki Song • Mike Swofford • Derek Thompson • Kurt Vanzo • Franz Vischer • William Waldman