Tim Hodge

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| caption = Hodge's portrait

| birth_name = Timothy Hodge

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|4|2}}

| birth_place = Boaz, Alabama, U.S.

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| other_names = Timothy Hodge
Timm Hodge

| occupation = Voice actor, writer, director, storyboard artist, animator, comedian, executive producer, producer

| years_active = 1993-present

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| known for = VeggieTales

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Timothy Hodge (born April 2, 1963) is an American voice actor, story artist, writer, animator, comedian, and director at Big Idea Entertainment in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has works on the VeggieTales{{cite book|last=Beck|first=Jerry|title=The Animated Movie Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/animatedmoviegui0000beck|url-access=registration|accessdate=9 May 2012|date=2005-10-28|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=9781556525919|pages=[https://archive.org/details/animatedmoviegui0000beck/page/131 131]–}} videos as well as other animated projects like 3-2-1 Penguins!.

Biography

Hodge became interested in film-making while he was in 7th grade when he stumbled upon his dad's 8 mm camera and spent his summer making short films using clay and other materials. Hodge later went on to attend Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He got his first job in animation at the then-current/now-defunct Willming-Reams Animation studio in San Antonio, Texas, where he drew animated television commercials for seven years, at the same time studying at the San Antonio Art Institute.

He later joined the Walt Disney Feature Animation studio located at the Disney/MGM Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida. While at Disney, he also worked as story artist on films like Mulan, John Henry for Disney's American Legends video and Brother Bear.

It was in 2000 that he took his family and moved north to Chicago, Illinois to join the studios of Big Idea Productions at the Yorktown Center mall and started working in computer animation. Hodge's directorial debut at Big Idea, Lyle the Kindly Viking, won the Best Direct To Video Animated Release at the 2001 World Animation Celebration. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Vocal Performance in 2003 for his role as Khalil in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.

Hodge won 1st Runner-up for his live-action short film Soccer Mom Detective in 2008.{{citation needed |date=June 2023}}

He currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee.{{citation needed |date=June 2023}}

Filmography

Roger Rabbit: Trail Mix-Up (1993) - in between artist
The Lion King (1994) - breakdown animator: Young Simba
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable (1995) - animator
Pocahontas (1995) - animation assistant
Mulan (1998) - story
John Henry (2000) - story supervisor, voice of MacTavish
VeggieTales (2000-2014) - director, producer, writer, storyboard artist, additional voices
3-2-1 Penguins! (2000-02, 2007-08) - executive producer, director, writer, concept artist
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) - head of story, voice of Khalil; Nominated - Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production{{cite web|url=https://annieawards.org/legacy/30th-annie-awards|title=30th Annual Annie Awards|website=Annie Awards|access-date=July 6, 2021}}
Brother Bear (2003) - additional story
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (2008) - lead storyboard artist, voice of Jolly Joe
Time & Chance (2008) - director, producer, writer, editor
Soccer Mom Detective (2008) - director, producer, writer
VeggieTales in the House (2014-2016) - director
VeggieTales in the City (2017) - director
The Dead Sea Squirrels (2025) - character design, storyboard artist