Biography

David Trumble is an award-winning Story & Concept Artist for animated features, currently working at Netflix Animation.

Trumble served as a Story Artist on Henry Selick and Jordan Peele's stop-motion feature "Wendell & Wild" (2022), for which he also contributed Character and Concept designs for a key sequence. Other credits at Netflix Animation include adaptations of the Roald Dahl book series (2022-), for which he served as both Story Artist and Storyboard Supervisor. Other studio jobs include STX Entertainment and Chingon Entertainment, for which he provided live action boards for key sequences in Robert Rodrigez's "We Can Be Heroes" (2020) and "Spy Kids: Armagheddon" (2023).

At the age of 16, Trumble won the 2003 Dan Hemingway Prize for Creativity for his 265 page graphic novel, Climate: A Cinematic Novel in Three Parts, which was subsequently published by the Blake Project. At the age of 21, David became the youngest political cartoonist to work at the Sun Newspaper (2008-10), one of the largest newspapers in the world with a daily readership of eight million. In addition to illustrating and designing for numerous published works, he also contributed thought-provoking cartoons for the Huffington Post, which have garnered millions of views and been featured through top media outlets across the world.

In 2012, Trumble's work moved to the top of Amazon's Movers and Shakers list for his dynamic illustrations in the Simon & Schuster publication, a Random Book about the Power of ANYone by Talia Leman (2012). Trumble has designed and created book covers and jackets for companies like iSB Global Publishing, Chicago Review Press, Simon & Schuster and ebooks; he has also provided artwork for websites, logos, comics, feature storyboards, branded products, portraits and other commissioned art, including the poster for The Superhero Project, benefiting Worldwide Orphans (WWO). He is also the illustrator of the Enjella Adventure Series by author Jane F. Collen.

David spoke at TEDxyouth@DesMoines in 2012 and TEDxGoodEnoughCollege in 2014; since then he has been invited to speak and educate in the fields of creativity at various schools in the US and UK, delivering a commencement address at The Cherwell School in Oxford.
- IMDb mini biography by: David Trumble