Character Design

Last year I was hired by Goldfish Swim Schools to create a mascot for their company, a goldfish named "Bubbles". They liked the mascot so much that they've since hired me to create a series of stick-on tattoos and coloring book pages for children featuring Bubbles in various costumes and themes. They'll distribute one per month for an entire year. I...

As some of you know, one of my clients is VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer. Over the past few months he's hired me to do little snippets of animation here and there for his new educational series "What's In The Bible?". Recently he wrapped up a 9-DVD series on the Old Testament and started work on the New Testament, which is...

Merry Christmas everyone! I'd like to use the occasion of Christmas to post a link to an animation project I developed in 2010 for the ministry of Living Waters. They hired me to produce a short cartoon that explains the basic Christian message, and in a round-about way I hope it helps explain why the birth of Jesus Christ was...

Earlier this year I was hired by a chain of swimming schools in Wisconsin to design a mascot for their company, Goldfish Swim Schools. You can see a few of the initial sketches here. They named the mascot "Bubbles", and they liked him/her/it so much that they asked me to create themed variations for use on calendars, removable tattoos, etc....

VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer has just released a new DVD called Clive and Ian's Wonderblimp of Knowledge. The series features two popular puppet brothers from Phil's ongoing series What's In The Bible?. The purple monkey puppet in the background was designed by yours truly. Here's the final design (you can see my concept sketches in an earlier post): Clive and Ian's Wonderblimp...

For the past couple of years VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer has been working on an ambitous new project called What's In The Bible? It's a 13-part DVD series that uses puppets, live action, and animation to educate children and adults alike about the contents of the best-selling book of all time. It's an entertaining blend of Bible stories, theology, church...