Word: vischer
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...irreverence has limits. "We will not portray Jesus as a vegetable," says Phil Vischer, 35, the Billy Graham-Bill Gates hybrid who made the first video in 1993 with fellow Bible-college dropout Mike Nawrocki. ("We failed chapel," Vischer says, because they were always up late the night before writing puppet skits.) Raised on a cultural diet of church and MTV, they wanted to create something that combined family and production values. They came up with an animated video based on the story of Daniel, Where's God When I'm S-Scared? It sold almost exclusively in Christian bookstores...
Where's God When I'm S-Scared? was released two years before Toy Story, making it the first fully computer-animated movie on the market. Nineteen VeggieTales videos have followed. Technologically, they are ingenious rather than astounding. One of the reasons Vischer chose vegetables was that they didn't need arms, legs, hair or clothes, making the animation process much simpler. Initially he created a candy bar with eyes, "but my wife walked by and said, 'Moms are going to be mad if you make their kids fall in love with candy bars,'" he says. He moved the eyes...