I’m Carter Higgins. I live in Burbank, CA and am a motion graphics designer. I have designed and animated video game trailers, TV commercials and documentary programming, and film titles. {My demo reel is online at www.carterhiggins.com.}
I’m originally from Richmond, Virginia, where I was an elementary school library media specialist. I have a M.Ed. in Curriculum + Instruction, and graphic design was only a hobby. I loved the pulse of the library and miss it so much. Seems like an odd career jump, but the kids I taught learned so differently than the ways I was taught to teach them…as far as being so very visual and image savvy, and it affected how I taught them. Because designing was a hobby, I especially started to notice how I responded to images, and took a leap out west to create them.
I still get to teach however, and am teaching courses in both graphic design and Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects).
I LOVE picture books, and have been carting around my copy of The Stinky Cheese Man since high school. I met Jon Scieszka at the SCBWI conference in LA in 2011 and honestly could tell him that that book is why I have been both a librarian and a graphic designer.
Update! So here’s something fun…that picture of me and Mr. Scieszka was from August 2011. At ALA in June of 2012, I’ve now added Lane Smith’s John Hancock to my beloved copy of The Stinky Cheese Man!
Now, I’m in the process of writing and creating my own picture books, and can’t wait for the day mine is on the shelf. I love the look and layout as much as reading and writing the words…which is why I created this space online to savor the design of the picture book.
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Hi Carter, love your site. I think we actually met at SCBWI this summer. I look forward to learning more about illustration via your blog.
Yes we did! At the VERY beginning, right? It turned out to be a pretty amazing weekend, didn’t it?!
You are AWESOME! What a beautiful blog! Can’t wait to read more! If you have the inclination, you can visit me at http://bananapeelin.blogspot.com! Hope to see you there!
Thank you! So nice:)
Hey lady! Just scrolling through! I noticed in your beautiful glamour shot above that you are wearing a bracelet almost identical to my own. Got so excited. Had to share. Important? Not really. Just sparkly. Look at this exchange from over a year ago! WOWZA! Things change! Love it!
We were always meant to be friends. Glad the internet sped up the process. SPARKLE!
Dear Carter, you have a great blog! i am actually a children’s book author (one of the many hats i wear in a day)…and have a blog for my first book thats due to be launched in Aug 2012. hope you will spend a minute visiting my site and feel free to like/follow if the journey interests you. Thanks a million, Roshni. http://threegreendreams.wordpress.com
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Miss Carter! How delighted I am to have found your blog. I’m going to have such a great time here, and I feel Very Certain that we are bound to be good bloggy friends since we have a wild love for picture books in common! Can’t wait to see more of your blog :) Aloha, Melissa
Hi Melissa@ Sounds great to me!
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Hi, Carter. Just want to tell you that I love your site. As a designer and illustrator, I simply love looking at all the amazing picture books you showcase on the blog. Gives me tons of inspiration. Thanks!
Hi Carter, nice site and I also enjoyed your last post on designofthepicturebook. I like line-work done in that style.
After many years in the stressful world of aircraft maintenance, I jumped into freelance cartooning. Nowhere near the same money, but I’ll live a lot longer.
Food is basic, but stress is ZERO.
With the print industry diminishing in Australia, work in my field is drying up, so I’ve just started to teach myself animation, using ToonBoom Studio.
Any tips on a good direction to go in animation?
eBooks was another passing thought but there seems to be too many traps with that.
http://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/about/
Cheers
Mick
The Stinky Cheese Man is so great, although my all-time favorite picture book is Eloise!