Ricardo Jabardo (1962, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan filmmaker, animator, and visual artist. He earned a degree in Communication Arts from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in 1976 and later completed an MFA in Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1994. Since 1989, he has lived in the United States, where he has worked in film, television, and multimedia design.