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Contact Information

First Name

Michael

Last Name

Arnold

Street Address

224 Oakland Rd

City

Maplewood

State

NJ

Country

United States

personal web address

http://www.arnomation.com

type of art work

Fun, animated, whimsical, humorous and colorful digital watercolor art of kids, children and animals for everything from children's books and editorial illustration to puzzles, activity books, restaurant menus, coloring books and more

Published Works

Clients Include: Hooked On Phonics, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Young & Rubicam, William H. Sadlier Publishing, Byron Preiss, McGraw-Hill, Price Stern Sloan, Brands Include: General Mills (Lucky Charms, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Honey Nut Cheerios), Danimals, Topps Push Pops, Burger King

Bio

I graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a BFA in Media Arts and after a few years of freelancing I joined the Children’s Television Workshop and spent the next nine years doing art and animation for all of their award winning cd-rom games as well as the popular ‘Journey To Ernie’ segment of the television show as will as the logo design for the Elmo Visits the Firehouse Home Video..

I’ve done everything from storyboarding, character design and animatic work for children’s advertising to greeting cards, storybooks, single panel gag cartoons, magazine illustration, book cover art, coloring books, cartoon logos, t-shirt designs and I’ve illustrated card games, menus and more.

Some of my clients include Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, Hooked of Phonics, The US Coast Guard and numerous advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam, Scholastic, and California Pizza Kitchens working on pre-production art for many brands including Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Trix) Campbell’s Soup, Danimals, Macy’s, Fisher-Price, Topps Push-Pops and Domino’s Pizza.