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Thanks for praying for our trip to Barcelona.  I traveled with Dom (the director on the 'Escaping the System' project) to Barcelona to be with the team there.  After nearly 2 years of a largely U.S. team working on the project it was time for them to take on the last half.  In this picture you can see Marc and Eva (top left) who have been the heart and soul of this project for many years now.  Their vision is to reach students all across Spain - and to go to the places and into the culture where these students live and engage with them; in their media, at their events and through their lives.  They are truly inspiring people to be around and they have a tremendous heart for the Lord and His love for people.  At the bottom of the picture are William and Isra.  William is an animator recently out of school.  Isra is managing the project part time as he continues in his job at an advertising company.  There are other people handling the website, music and other parts of the str

Wow - what an incredible adventure the last 2 years have been - it's hard to believe it is winding down. It all started with hearing from my supervisor at the time, Bailey, that the team in Spain was looking for help in animation. I was just finishing work on pre-production of My Last Day (the pilot film of our life of Jesus in anime concept). Bailey and I proposed a research project to see if we could be of help to our sister ministry in Spain (called Agape), and we were off. I had previously been talking with my friend Dom about the project (CEO of Premise Entertainment here in Orlando - former Disney senior animator and all around great guy to work with). We had kicked around some ideas. Also at that time God brought about a connection (through a mutual friend) to Joshua G. who had just graduated from Full Sail as a rigger for CG characters. Joshua also had a modeler/zbrush artist friend who had also finished Full Sail, and together with Mark from the Pioneers ministry, w

A new name for Campus Crusade for Christ I can't say it much better than this FAQ posted on Campus Crusade for Christ's website. While we knew the consideration of a new name was going on for the last year or two, we hadn't thought much about it until it was formally announced last week during the biennial staff conference going on in Colorado. So we wanted you to hear it from us rather than the news - yes, the new name that will be gradually phased in next year is, quite simply, Cru.

Last week our team completed the 5th episode from what in the United States would probably be called the "Escaping the System" story - the project we are doing in partnership with the Agape ministry in Spain. It is exciting to hear of students who were ministered to at the huge secular comic festival in Barcelona in May. Many students came up to the workers there that had first been exposed to the story at the festival a year ago and had been following it ever since. This episode touches on the prodigal son story, and episode 7 deals with the death and resurrection of Jesus. (You can see it at here or linked from our blog). Please keep the team in your prayers as we work through finishing episode 6 (in production right now) and episode 7 (in pre-production)! After we do these episodes the plan is for production to transition to Spain. So please pray for the team that is being formed in Spain, and for Josh (our TD) as he travels there in July to help with the transition

"My Last Day on Earth" - finally released! After about 7 years of on again/off again, research, web surveys and various steps toward this day, the short 9-minute film on the crucifixion of Jesus is finally finished. There are several things that are unique about this film, in addition to how various obstacles that were cleared and people that came along at just the right time; it was all - well amazing if not miraculous. A few of the unique aspects to this film: the story was writtne by Barry Cook (director of Disney's 'Mulan') in between his other projects. He remotely supervised assembly of an animatic (thanks to Ovi Nedelcu for his storyboarding skills!), but Barry's vision was always for a Japanese studio to take over final production and make a great film with their unique artistry. it retells the crucifixion story, but through the eyes of the condemned thief (actually, some research indicates he might have been one of the 'zealots' that used