{"id":5,"date":"2015-08-27T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-11-23T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:27:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"About Stwalley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Stwalley&#8217;s Demo Reel<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 604px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5-1\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/demoreel2023_COMPRESSED.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/demoreel2023_COMPRESSED.mp4\">https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/demoreel2023_COMPRESSED.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Digital Artist | Animator | Illustrator | Cartoonist | Game Designer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-175 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/me-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"me\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/me-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/me-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/me.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been a professional digital artist in the advertising industry for over 20 years. I&#8217;ve primarily made my living doing animation and motion graphics, but I also have done a lot of illustration, cartooning, photo editing and video editing work. It is conceivable I may have built more banner advertisements than any other person alive. Many of the ad campaigns I have worked on have been seen by millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Clients I have done work for included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/2020\/09\/09\/best-buy-banners\/\">Best Buy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/2015\/08\/27\/target-fashion-banner-ads\/\">Target<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/2020\/09\/10\/post-cereals-social-media-videos\/\">Post<\/a>, Black &#038; Decker, Phillips Distilling, Country Inns &amp; Suites, Fifth Third Bank, Nike Bauer, Saucony, Discover Boating, Kraftmaid, Minnesota Lottery, Minnesota Wild, General Mills, Optum Health, Whole Foods, Kuhlman, The University of Minnesota, NSF, United Healthcare, Belize, and many, many more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a game designer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/2020\/08\/04\/squirmish-the-card-game-of-brawling-beasties\/\">SQUIRMISH: The Card Game of Brawling Beasties<\/a> is a beast-battling tabletop card game that I designed and illustrated, which is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/2024\/11\/23\/squirmish-the-videogame-of-brawling-beasties\/\">also a videogame on Steam<\/a> I&#8217;ve made in collaboration with programmer Jeff Faust at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faustlogic.com\/\">Faust Logic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a founding member of <a href=\"https:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The International Cartoonist Conspiracy. <\/a>My comics have been featured in numerous anthologies and gallery shows, as well as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mnartists.walkerart.org\/visual-art-a-high-culture-embrace-of-pop-hot-ink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Ink: Comic Art<\/a> show at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Museum of American Art<\/a>. I am also a featured cartoonist in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Superheroes-Strip-Artists-Talking-Animals\/dp\/0873517776\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Superheroes, Strip Artists, and Talking Animals: Minnesota\u2019s Contemporary Cartoonists<\/a> by Britt Aamodt, published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnhs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Historical Society<\/a>. I regularly post webcomics, I have created numerous comic books, and I&#8217;ve often collaborated with other artists to create comics anthologies and jam comics.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an opportunity you think my skills might be a good fit for, I&#8217;d love to hear about it. You can email me at sstwalley(at)gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>~Steven Stwalley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Stwalley&#8217;s Demo Reel &nbsp; Digital Artist | Animator | Illustrator | Cartoonist | Game Designer I&#8217;ve been a professional digital artist in the advertising industry for over 20 years. I&#8217;ve primarily made my living doing animation and motion graphics, but I also have done a lot of illustration, cartooning, photo editing and video editing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Stwalley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Eyis-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}