Big Idea Productions

About Us

Big Idea Productions is a family media company known for the computer-animated VeggieTales children's video series, Big Idea is now branching out to new and exciting venues. 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. 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 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-mainia' really exploded making VeggieTales one of the most popular children's video series in the world.