The Storybook
The people behind
the greatest stories.
Every character we animate walked out of scripture first. Here's who they were, what the Bible says about them — and how far along their animated film is. New characters join as new books enter production.
Books of Samuel · 1 Samuel 16–17
David
The shepherd boy whose sling felled a giant — and whose heart made him a king.
The youngest of eight brothers, David was tending sheep in Bethlehem when the prophet Samuel arrived with a horn of oil. God had rejected King Saul — and while everyone looked at the tall brothers, God looked at the heart. "Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7).
When the Philistine champion Goliath defied the armies of Israel for forty days, it was this boy — too small for armor, armed with a sling and five smooth stones — who ran toward the giant that seasoned soldiers fled from. One stone was enough. David would go on to become Israel's greatest king, its sweetest psalmist, and an ancestor of Jesus.
Animated film 70% in production · coming soon
Books of Samuel · 1 Samuel 17
Goliath
Nine feet of Philistine bronze, felled by faith and a single stone.
The champion of Gath stood over nine feet tall by the ancient measure — his coat of bronze armor alone weighed as much as a man. Morning and evening for forty days he strode into the valley of Elah and roared the same challenge: send one man to fight me, and let the loser's nation serve the winner. Not one soldier in Israel's army dared answer.
Goliath's story is the Bible's most vivid picture of how intimidation works — and how it fails. He mocked the boy who finally came out to meet him. But "the battle is the Lord's" (1 Samuel 17:47), and the giant who trusted in bronze fell to a shepherd who trusted in God.
Animated film 70% in production · coming soon
Books of Samuel · 1 Samuel 1–2
Hannah
The mother whose desperate prayer was answered with a prophet.
Year after year Hannah went up to the temple at Shiloh carrying the same grief: she had no child, and her rival made sure she never forgot it. One evening she prayed so intensely — lips moving, no sound — that the priest Eli thought she was drunk. She was making a vow: give me a son, and I will give him back to You.
God remembered Hannah. She named her boy Samuel — "asked of God" — and kept her promise, bringing him to serve in the temple as soon as he was weaned. Her song of thanksgiving (1 Samuel 2) echoes a thousand years later in the song of Mary. The prophet who would anoint Israel's first two kings began as one woman's answered prayer.
Animated film 70% in production · coming soon
Book of Daniel · Daniel 1–4
Nebuchadnezzar
The king who built golden Babylon — and learned who truly reigns.
The most powerful man on earth in his day, Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, carried its brightest young men into exile, and built Babylon into a wonder of the ancient world. He dreamed dreams that terrified him, demanded the impossible of his wise men, and raised a golden image ninety feet tall — with a furnace ready for anyone who refused to bow.
Yet the book of Daniel shows this king being humbled step by step: by a dream only a captive could interpret, by three men who walked out of his furnace unburned, and finally by seven years of madness that ended with his eyes lifted to heaven. His own conclusion: "those who walk in pride he is able to humble" (Daniel 4:37).
Animated film 40% in production · coming soon
Book of Daniel · Daniel 6
Darius
The Mede who sealed the lions' den — and could not sleep until dawn.
Darius the Mede inherited Babylon and quickly recognized the worth of an aging exile named Daniel — planning to set him over the whole kingdom. Jealous officials, unable to find any fault in Daniel, engineered a trap out of the king's own vanity: a decree that for thirty days, prayers could be made to no one but Darius himself.
The king signed, then discovered the law he could not unsign condemned the man he most trusted. He labored till sundown to save Daniel, sealed the den with his own signet, and spent the night fasting and sleepless. At first light he ran to the den and called out — and the answer that came back changed his kingdom: "My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths" (Daniel 6:22).
Animated film 40% in production · coming soon
Book of Enoch · Genesis 5:21–24
Enoch
The man who walked with God — and was no more, for God took him.
Seven generations from Adam, in the long genealogy of Genesis where every life ends with the same words — "and he died" — one man breaks the pattern. "Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him" (Genesis 5:24). No death recorded. Just a walk that never ended.
The ancient Book of Enoch expands his story into one of scripture's most astonishing visions: the fallen angels called Watchers, their giant offspring, and Enoch himself carried through the heavens as a scribe and messenger between God and a world sliding toward the flood. His great-grandson was Noah — and the New Testament still quotes him by name (Jude 1:14).
Animated film 80% in production · coming soon
Book of Enoch · Daniel 8–9 · Luke 1
Gabriel
The messenger who stands in the presence of God.
Only two angels are named in the Hebrew scriptures, and Gabriel is the one who brings the word. He interprets visions for Daniel by the river Ulai, arrives "in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice" (Daniel 9:21), and in the Book of Enoch stands among the four great archangels before the throne, sent against the corruption of the Watchers.
Centuries later, the same messenger steps into a temple in Jerusalem and then a house in Nazareth, announcing the births of John the Baptist and of Jesus — introducing himself simply: "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God" (Luke 1:19). When God has news that changes history, this is who carries it.
Animated film 80% in production · coming soon
Book of Enoch · Job 41 · Psalm 104
Leviathan
The untameable terror of the deep, stirred beneath the fifth day's seas.
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?" God asks Job — and spends an entire chapter on the answer: no. Sparks leap from its mouth, its heart is hard as stone, iron is straw to it, and "on earth there is not its like, a creature without fear" (Job 41:33). The sea monster is scripture's picture of everything in creation too vast for human hands.
Yet the psalmist adds a stunning twist: this same terror is God's creature, formed "to play in the sea" (Psalm 104:26). The Book of Enoch names Leviathan as the female monster of the watery abyss, set apart on the day of judgment. Untameable by us — never by its Maker.
Animated film 80% in production · coming soon
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