Phil Vischer

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Phillip Roger "Phil" Vischer (born June 16, 1966) is an American animatr, puppeteer, writer, actor, and songwriter who created the computer-animated video game VeggieTales with Mike Nawrocki.

Bob the Tomato and about half of the other characters in the series were voiced by him.

Jellyfish Labs, a Wheaton, Illinois-based small film company, is now owned by Jim Moris.

Early life and education

Phil Vischer was born in Muscatine, Iowa, United States, on June 16, 1966, and he grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Vischer attended St. Paul Bible College (now known as Crown College); at the time, he worked at a small Christian video production company.

Personal life

Vischer resides in Wheaton, Illinois, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Chicago. In the VeggieTales series, his wife Lisa provides voices to many characters, most notably Junior Asparagus. They have three children.

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Career

Me Myself and Bob, Vischer, and his longtime friend Mike Nawrocki founded Big Idea Productions in the late 1980s as GRAFx Studios, according to Vischer's 2005 autobiography. It started off as a small business that made its films using computer animation. Eventually, Phil Vischer and Nawrocki founded VeggieTales and renamed the business to Big Idea Productions. Vischer's "Big Idea" was to educate children about right-from-wrong using God's messages from the Bible. Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber were among the characters they came up with. Since vegetables were quicker to animate than human characters, they chose vegetables to be the characters. Both eating vegetables on a counter will be welcomed by someone asking about a specific Christian topic (selfishness, fear, lying, sharing, etcetera) followed by two short stories about the subject. It would be a silly song in the middle of the segment. Not only will Vischer and Nawrocki appear as the show's producers and directors, but they will also perform the majority of the characters (the majority by Vischer).

"Where's God When I'm Scared," the studio's first big creation was a 1993 direct-to-video VeggieTales episode "Where's God When I'm Scared?" In late 1993, the first time was published on home video. The video was a huge success, and demand for sequels to the show was on the rise. "God Wants Me To Forgive Them," Big Idea's next video was "God Wants Me To Forgive Them." It was announced in 1994 and featured Jeff Morrow, the company's first professional voice actor. "Are You My Neighbor," the series's third film, appeared in 1995. "What's the Big Idea?" was released, and VeggieTales continued to produce at least one video per year and even published their own newsletter titled "What's the Big Idea?" The series was a huge success, and by the late 1990s, the company had earned millions of dollars each year.

Due to a variety of circumstances, Vischer slowly found himself running a company that was losing money due to a variety of factors. Their series was still a hit on the market, but Vischer's decision to take out a loan and produce their first full-length film, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, caused the corporation to slowly fall apart financially. To make things worse, Big Idea's dissolution of their long-time distributor Lyrick Studios (the company behind Barney & Friends and Wishbone) prompted Lyrick's parent company, HiT Entertainment, to file a lawsuit against the firm for "breach-of-contract." Vischer was supposed to negotiate for $500,000, but HiT refused and the case was dismissed before the judge denied Big Idea's motion for summary decision. A jury decided against Big Idea in 2003, awarding HiT & Lyrick $11 million. Despite the fact that the decision was later reversed on appeal, the harm was done and Big Idea filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the summer of 2003. Vischer continued to work on VeggieTales as a writer until 2009 (and continued to do so for Bob and others until his contract ended) after Big Idea was purchased by Classic Media in 2004. VeggieTales was cancelled shortly after Vischer's departure.

Phil Vischer, who had sold Big Idea, took two years to recover. Jellyfish Labs, a design studio that he founded in order to introduce his new company vision; JellyTelly, which he intended to be "a Nickelodeon for Christians." Phil Vischer said in his book that he felt that as CEO of Big Idea, he felt that his heart had turned from God, and that, as a result, Vischer limits his own authority and lets God "guide the organization."

Vischer began production on a new spin-off series of his puppet show "What's in the Bible" in late 2009. "What's in the Bible" is a 13-DVD series that takes children through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. "What's in the Bible" teaches "Christianity" in the same way Walt Disney taught America about space travel and "Our Friend the Atom" on television in the 1950s and 60s, as well as Carl Sagan's on PBS in the 1980s. For the series, Vischer recruited Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal to write, sing, and perform several songs about the Bible's books. Tyndale House Publishers published the collection. Between March of 2010 and March of 2014, there were 13 episodes of "What's in the Bible."

Vischer began hosting The Holy Post Podcast (formerly The Phil Vischer Podcast), a weekly podcast devoted to life, pop-culture, television, and theology, using humor in what he describes as a "post-Christian" American culture. The podcast, co-hosted by writer and former Christianity Today editor Skye Jethani and actor Christian Taylor, offers in-depth analysis of American Christians' involvement in politics and the public square. It's a regular feature on the top 100 podcasts.

Phil Vischer re-teamed with TBN's longtime collaborator Mike Nawrocki in March 2019 to re-launch the VeggieTales series. Vischer and Nawrocki will reprise to voice their characters and also work as writers for the new film, just as before. It was the first time that Vischer had any influence on the company since launching Big Idea at the end of 2003. At first, Vischer held off on TBN until he discovered that TBN intended to continue the original VeggieTales direct-to-video series before it became a DreamWorks franchise.

Vischer and Nawrocki departed from the franchise in 2021 after being denied greater creative control by Big Idea Entertainment, and that the company was planning to recast their characters on Twitter.

He has co-created hundreds of characters as the co-creator of VeggieTales with Mike Nawrocki. Among them are: Bob the Tomato, Archibald Asparagus, Pa Grape, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy Gourd, Mr. Nezzer, Philippe Pea, and several others.

Buck Denver, Captain Pete, Helen Rosenfiddle, Sunday School Lady, and others have all been puppeteers and voices with JellyTelly.

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