About

Ryan Wells fell in love with animation at an early age and knew he wanted to pursue a career in the field before he even entered kindergarten. By the age of five he had already begun creating his own original characters he fantasized would one day come to life.

In 2000 Ryan created the cheezy short story series The Totally Fucked Up Adventures of Herman the Cheese Man, about an all-American piece of Swiss cheese who had a disturbing poop fetish. In 2001 he quit writing Herman to work on his infamous audio sketch series Coach & Russell. This was Ryan's first taste of fame, and he liked it. He would hear his fellow classmates quote his sketches as he walked down the high school halls. He kept the series running for two years before he quit to spend more time animating in Macromedia Flash.

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In 2002 Ryan finished his first original animated cartoon entitled "Eye Can't Make It", which revolved around the cartoon cat he created in kindergarten. He continued making short cartoons in high school, including "Spike & Johny", "Chef Bonerappetite", and "ICEE the BIG PICTURE". College led to more successful animated endeavors with a series of Barney the Dinosaur parodies and his first original web series The Wish Fish Family. In 2004 he completed an hour-long cartoon based on his comic book characters from Ostrich, Hippo & Jesus on Grass. Ryan has worked on over thirty animated cartoons using only his home computer since 2002 when he introduced FARToons™ to the world. He has also produced over eighty short live-action films using his digital video camera, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro.

In 2006 Ryan joined forces with Agon Studios to publish Ostrich, Hippo & Jesus on Grass into a series of comic books, currently available for purchase at Star Clipper Comics in the St. Louis area.

Ryan has been developing an animated television series the past several years that he plans on pitching to networks in the near future. He has written a half-hour script for a pilot and over 90 episode storylines revolving around his original cast of characters.

Ryan recently graduated from Webster University with a bachelor's degree in Animation, where he won several awards for his cartoons, videos, and web site.