Snoodle11/29/2022 ![]() ![]() Big Idea's next video was "God Wants Me To Forgive Them?!?" which was released in 1994 and included the help of their first professional voice actor Jeff Morrow. The video was a tremendous success and soon demand was high for sequels to the show. The studio's first big creation was 1993 direct-to-video VeggieTales episode "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?" which was released on home video in late 1993. Not only would Vischer and Nawrocki serve as the producers and directors of the show, but they would also voice most of the characters in the franchise (the most by Vischer). In the middle of the segment would be a silly song. A normal segment of VeggieTales would begin with both talking vegetables on a countertop receiving a letter from someone asking about a particular Christian topic (selfishness, fear, lying, sharing, etcetera) followed by two short stories about the topic. ![]() They chose vegetables to serve as the characters because they were easier to animate than human characters. The characters they came up with were Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. The "Big Idea" for Vischer, was to teach children about right-from-wrong using God's messages from the Bible. Eventually, Phil Vischer and Nawrocki created VeggieTales and renamed the company to Big Idea Productions. It started out as a small business that used computer animation to make its films. Career Īccording to Vischer's 2005 autobiography, Me Myself and Bob, Vischer and his longtime friend Mike Nawrocki founded Big Idea Productions in the late 1980s as GRAFx Studios. ![]() ![]() Paul Bible College (currently known as Crown College) around that time, he also worked at a small Christian video production company. For three semesters, Vischer attended St. Phil Vischer was born Jin Muscatine, Iowa, United States, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. ![]()
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