Phil Trumbo

Phil Trumbo is an Emmy Award-winning art director, educator and illustrator with over 30 years of experience creating entertaining and imaginative visuals for games, web, TV, film, print, collectible cards, toys and apparel. Phil's specialties include Art Direction, Game Art, Illustration, Concept Art, Graphic Design, Storyboards and Original I.P. Development g. Phil has worked at all levels of participation from artist, animator, art director, designer, animation director, fx editor to creative director. His clients include: Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Pop Cap Games, Pixar, Activision, Disney Interactive,Buena Vista Games, Vivendi Universal Games, Warner Bros., Mattel, THQ, NBC, ABC, CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, Proctor and Gamble, General Mills and more... An experienced creative visualist in film, TV and interactive media, Phil Trumbo provided creative and artistic direction to nearly one hundred high-profile games, with retail sales of over a billion dollars. Many of his of his notable successes come from adapting prestigious film and television properties into highly successful games, including- Pirates of the Caribbean(TM), Chronicles of Narnia(TM), Lord of the Rings(TM), Harry Potter (TM)", Shrek(TM), "Spiderman(TM), The Sims(TM), Star Wars(TM), Lego(TM), Finding Nemo(TM), "X-Men(TM) and Ice Age(TM). Phil won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the opening title sequence for CBS's Pee Wee's Playhouse and directed the stop-motion dinosaur family for that ground-breaking show. In addition, he has created storyboards and animation for network TV shows, logos, and visual effects for films. Phil is Tenured Professor and Chair of the Digital Gaming & Interactive Media Program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Kirkland WA. He is available for lecturing, teaching, illustration and fine art commissions.