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Bryan Ballinger has won a number of awards for his illustration including:

• Finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award

• Featured in D'Artist, a book on the best of digital painting.

• Featured Artist on the SCBWI website

• Gruntly Carving illustration was accepted in Spectrum's 10th Annual Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art.

• Tusky the Unwakeable Walrus  got  into the 2003 Society of Illustrators Biennial Dimensional 

• Tusky also was chosen to be included in  Expose 1, a book on the history of the best in computer graphics. 

• Two-time winner of 3-D Design Magazine's Big Kahuna Award in the print category.  One was for the "Eggs" image in 1997, the other was for Dodo Redux in 1999. 

• Honorable mention award in the SCBWI 3rd illustration contest.

Bryan graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1990 with a degree in Illustration. He also has a master's degree in Writing for Children from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. After moving to Seattle in 1991 and doing freelance work for companies such as Nintendo Power magazine,  he started working at Microsoft as an illustrator.  He was lead illustrator for the first version of the award-winning Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia as well as the Explorapedia children's encyclopedia series.  Bryan was the 3D Design Lead for 5 years at Big Idea Productions, the producers of the VeggieTales children's videos. Bryan is also a professor of Digital Media Arts at Huntington University in Indiana. Bryan does illustration for children's books, websites, games, videos, ads, etc.  He is also the co-author of The Great Cheese Squeeze, a children's book he did with his buddy Keith Lango.

My other sites:

 Breadwig (blog)

Kooky Chow

Suxco

Luncheon Loaf

Caramel Flass

 Chump Cheese

 Pantelope