Selected Professional Work
Selected Professional Work
Game Designer | Illustrator | Animator | Public Artist
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*Visualpump, LLC
*Visualpump, LLC
Animated Game Preview, Animations by Bill Fischer in Collaboration with Susan Bonner
About Visualpump
About Visualpump
I founded a business focused on Game Art, Animation, Motion Design, and Children's Product Development.
Below are selections of the work which includes:
Below are selections of the work which includes:
Sassy Developmental Toys
UnderBite Games
MAM Baby USA
TJohn E Games
Blue Lobster Media
Artworks!
Amway
*Lost Boy Home Documentary Feature Film
*Lost Boy Home Documentary Feature Film
Film Overview:
Film Overview:
Zachariah Char, a Sudanese "Lost Boy" left his home in Sudan after the government declared all males in Christian South Sudan would be killed. We animated the story Zachariah and 27,000 boys and young men who fled Sudan and settled in Ethiopia.
Featured on HBO and Amazon Prime
Narrated by Sam Waterston
Visualpump's Role:
Visualpump's Role:
Susan Bonner: Artist and Director of Animation
Briana Yarhouse: Storyboards
Bill Fischer: Animation
The Animation reel from the film
*TjohnE Game Productions
*TjohnE Game Productions
The Think Fast Game Overview:
The Think Fast Game Overview:
TjohnE tackles topics like Mental Health, Bullying, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, STDs, and Date Rape in live auditoriums in universities and high schools across the country. These difficult topics were woven into a game show format to inform students in an engaging way.
My Role:
My Role:
I directed a team of animators, illustrators, story-boarders, and sound designers to create the animations for the game’s title cards, rewards screens, questions, and answers.
Reel showing selected animations created for the Thinkfast game by Visualpump LLC.
*Sassy Developmental Toys
*Sassy Developmental Toys
My Role
My Role
I was a Character Designer for the Baby Leapfrog Product Line
I designed 12 baby animal characters to be used in the newly designed Leapfrog Baby brand that Sassy licensed.
These characters were used throughout the interactive baby product line and sold internationally. This product line included Crab Rattle, Octopus Spanish and English Color Language plush Toy, Teething Books, Jungle Jumping Toy, Play Matt, Play Mirrors, and more.
My Octopus Character Design
My Color Crab Character Design
Baby Leapfrog Language Learning Plush Octopus
Baby Leapfrog Color Learning Crab Rattle
*UnderBite Games
*UnderBite Games
About 1st and Goal:
About 1st and Goal:
A Football Physical Board Game by R & R Games brought to mobile by Underbite Games.
Out think your adversary, choose the right plays, touchdown!
The game was made available on Google Play and the iTunes Store.
Character Art for the Mobile Game
Cover Art for the Game
My Role:
My Role:
I created the Concept and Production Art for the 1st & Goal Mobile Game (iOS, Android) for Underbite Games who was contracted by R and R Games.
Mam Baby USA
Mam Baby USA
Mam Overview:
Mam Overview:
MAM develops innovative and safe baby products. Parents can feel confident with their babies using Mam pacifiers, bottles, and teething toys.
My Role:
My Role:
In 2008 when MAM entered the US market from Europe, I helped them to build their brand for the American parent.
I provided consulting services:
outlining marketing strategies for using Google Adwords
defining future color trends for the Baby Market
analyzing European design trends
defining soon-to-be parents general trends for lifestyle products
*Art Works!
*Art Works!
"I want to be..." Murals
"I want to be..." Murals
My Role:
My Role:
I invited 50 people from diverse roles in the community to talk about their jobs. The youth interviewed, photographed, and painted their story. I was the lead artist, training young people about jobs through the arts. I developed the concept and directed the artists, assistants, and apprentices.
Collaborators:
Collaborators:
50 Diverse Community Experts talked about their jobs
20 ArtWorks! Paid Apprentices learned job training through the Arts.
5 ArtWorks staff
2 Head Start Gyms housed the murals to help teach about jobs in the neighborhood
2 Assistant Artists
1 Social Worker for the Grand Rapids Housing Commision
1 Lead Artist
"I want to be..." Murals Sponsors:
"I want to be..." Murals Sponsors:
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art
Grand Rapids Housing Commission
Visualpump
WMCAT, (West Michigan Center for Art and Technolgy)
7Seven's Paint and Hardware
Spectrum Health
I want to be a doctor like Khan, one of the 50 mural boards
Painting the mural with an apprentice
Amway Americas Motion Design
Amway Americas Motion Design
Purpose:
Purpose:
To help inspire Amway Business Owners to expand to Brazil
My Role:
My Role:
Amway provided us with a corporate presentation that we designed, illustrated, and animated into a fun informative video to more effectively convey their message.
Chris Brown from Interactive Guru animated and I did the imaging and rigging.
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