{"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":"2026-06-10T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:25:27","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 working 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, design and video editing work. It is conceivable I may have built more banner advertisements than any other person alive&#8230; so, sorry about that. Many of the ad campaigns I have worked on have been seen by millions of people just trying to get to the content they actually want to see.<\/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, Whole Foods, Kuhlman, The University of Minnesota, NSF, 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 working 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, design 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":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/907"}],"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}]}}