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Big Idea Productions is a family media company located in Lombard, Illinois. Known for the computer-animated VeggieTales® children's video series, Big Idea is now branching out to new and exciting venues.
Where Big Idea Came From
Big Idea was founded in a spare bedroom by computer animator and storyteller Phil Vischer in July of 1993. With one computer, little capital and no connections, Phil set out with the goal of creating values-based family media products.
Where Big Idea Is Going
Along the way, Big Idea has grown from a staff of three people to more than 130, adding the infrastructure to produce books, apparel and other licensed products, as well as expanding the animation studio to take on larger, more elaborate projects: feature-length films, new properties, even television!
1998- Big Idea celebrates it's 5th Anniversary.
Working with two young art school grads and friends volunteering on weekends, Phil completed the first half-hour episode of VeggieTales, Where's God When I'm S-Scared? before Christmas, 1993. It was the nation's first entirely computer animated video.
After selling 130,000 videos through 1995, word-of-mouth began to kick in. By the end of 1996, 750,000 videos had been sold. With friends telling friends about the video series, "Veggie-mania" really exploded! Big Idea shipped its one millionth VeggieTales video in March of '97, then passed the 2 million mark in November of that year and the 3 million mark in March of '98, making VeggieTales one of the most popular children's video series in the world. The company has now sold more than 11 million videos.
Following its success at Christian retail stores, the first two VeggieTales titles were released to mass market stores like Target, Wal-Mart and K-Mart on March 31, 1998. Many other titles have followed in the months since then. No matter where you shop, Big Idea continues to teach kids valuable lessons.
The future is looking good for the baby media company that only six short years ago consisted of one guy in a spare bedroom with almost nothing but a big idea.
