About Spencer
Writing by Spencer on Wednesday, 20 of February , 2008 at 12:41 am
A bit about me. Does anybody really read this part?
I’ve always been drawing pictures and telling stories. I just knew that when I grew up I would be a starving artist. So, I graduated From Arizona State University with a Fine Arts degree. I wanted to continue to tell stories and to draw pictures so I decided that I would learn more about animation. At the time, I wasn’t too keen on moving from Arizona to study in California, so I did my best to combined a few of my classes at ASU to make my own animation program.
When Fox Animation Studios moved to Arizona, I was ready to jump on board. But alas, I was never hired. So I found other work Painting houses, Faux finishing, Sculpting, Sketching, Illustrating, making Flash animations, and finally creating graphics for e-Learning courses. I stuck with the e-Learning work for 10 years. I was able to work in some of the animation that I wanted to do through the designs that I was creating with that job.
In the end, I figured that if I wanted to do animation I would have to do it on my own. It’s been a bit slow going but I’ve learned quite a bit along the way. I’ve done some wedding videos, sketches for a newspaper, and even made some cartoons. I’m not quite sure what I want to be when I grow up, but I better start figuring it out.
Back in Nov. of 2007, my friend challenged me to start doing some sketching again. I submitted some work samples and started drawing Sketch Cards for the Topps Company. Then around Thanksgiving I shot a video to enter a contest and won a Burt Reynolds Edition Trans Am. I started with sketch cards for The Lord of the Rings, then went on to work on Indiana Jones, Marvel, and then Star Wars. I was contacted and made an exclusive print for the Star Wars Celebration in Japan. I’ve also got to work on some animated projects and am still drawing Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
I’ve been married for more than a dozen years and have a half dozen kids. Wow, I just read what I wrote. Shockingly true. 
*PS, the above is a photo of me, but it could be anyone of my kids. That Kamino Clone Factory’s got nothing on me!
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Comment by Kevin Hunt
Made Wednesday, 28 of May , 2008 at 3:59 pm
Do you illustrate books - or can you? I have written several books for children and am looking for an illustrator for them. I have a series entitled, “Uncle Joe and His Friends”. Uncle Joe is a story teller and tells stories - about various character traits to his animal friends.
Kevin Hunt
Comment by Spencer
Made Thursday, 29 of May , 2008 at 9:58 am
I do illustrations and animation, but I’ve never illustrated a whole book before. I would start out the process of connecting with publishers by getting invovled with the Society of Children’s book authors and illustrators, http://www.scbwi-az.org/.
Comment by Jason Sibinski
Made Monday, 14 of July , 2008 at 3:59 pm
Spencer,
Could you please tell me how many Indiana Jones sketch cards you produced for both the Heritage collection and also the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull collection for the Topps Card Sets?
Comment by Spencer
Made Monday, 14 of July , 2008 at 4:14 pm
I did 106 and 106.
