Abraham cartoon time

Two short episodes from the life of Abraham.

Abraham Called: God calls him to a new life in Canaan (Genesis 12:1-7 and Genesis 15:1-20),





Abraham Tested: his trial at Mt Moriah to sacrifice his son (Genesis 22:1-18).

Moses toons

Miriam & Moses.
Baby Moses is in trouble! Pharaoh attacks the Hebrews. Miriam help Moses escape. Animated in Flash, as usual. Narration from Exodus 2:1-10.

Moses & the Red Sea.
The exodus epic! Well the bit after the plagues. After the Passover the Pharaoh lets the Hebrews go, but quickly changes his mind. The narration is Exodus 14:5-21.

Some Jesus toons

Demons and Pigs.

Jesus goes to cure a man of his demon infestation. But where will all the demons go? This is a short cartoon I made for the Max7 website. They gave me a selection of Bible verses to work from and this one from Luke 8:26-39 jumped out at me.

Lazarus raised.

This is my second Jesus film. The narration is taken straight from John chapter 11 in the Contemporary English Version. It’s pretty much a straight re-telling of the story of Jesus resurrecting Lazarus to life again. Narration by Matt Wills. I hope you enjoy it!

Daniel and the king's dreams

This is a video clip to POD's 'Sleeping Awake'. Based on Daniel chapters 1-6. I liked the idea of the song, but felt it had drifted from it's original meaning after it featured in the Matrix film. I tried to animate what I felt the band intended when they wrote/ performed it.

BANG!

The audio is part of a Christian/ atheist debate hosted by St Barnabas, Broadway, in Sydney.The argument goes that there must have been something uncreated to start the universe, which had a beginning. How can something come from nothing? This doesn't tell us much about God (nothing here about the Trinity, forgiveness, etc), but it’s a start. References Genesis 1:1-3.
Thanks to Luke Glanville for the (brief) track and to William Lane Craig for lending his voice. Made in Adobe Flash.

Memory Game

For a Sunday School game, I made these pictures to illustrate different verses in the Gospels. They were made into a set of memory cards with the corresponding verse as the matching pair. I've listed what I think are the matching verses in the comments section below.

The labourers in the yard

Another piece of work featuring an old crone. I used a bit more artistic licence on this one, transferring the scenario in the parable from a vineyard owner to an old lady who needs her yard fixed up. Jesus' point in the parable is that God's love isn't fair, it's outrageously indiscriminate. Based on Matthew 20.

On an autobiographical note, I remember as a kid being roped into other peoples schemes and set to work without really wanting to be there. I wonder if kids today have to put up with that!