Introducing Firefighter Dan!

Firefighter Dan on Fire Life!

Your kids have seen Bob the Builder, Handy Manny, and Dora the Explorer. Have they seen Firefighter Dan™? Is he the next big thing? Well, much like your typical firefighter, Firefighter Dan isn’t out to become the next big thing, he just wants kids to be safer and better citizens in our community.

We are proud to announce that Firefighter Dan™ is NOW a contributor to Firelife.com.

Firefighter Dan™ features a safety curriculum that helps kids 2-6 recognize, reduce and escape hazards while helping to develop numeracy, literacy, art, science, history, reasoning and citizenship. By utilizing all types of media: photographs, video, illustration, animation and an interactive format that creates viewer participation, Firefighter Dan™ will engage children to be confident, active, and helpful members of the community.
Firefighter Dan™ will be featuring Safety Tips and other content here on Firelife.com as well as on FirefighterDan.com. Each of our  Safety Tips will be a short animation between 60 and 90 seconds. We believe by keeping the content in short bytesize chunks of information, a child will be able to better digest the information. In addition, we will be sharing ‘behind-the-scenes’ to The Firefighter Dan™ Show as we move forward in production.  
 

IN THE NEWS

The Firefighter Dan™ Show was in the June/July 2011 Issue of Animation Magazine. We participated in the Animation Magazine 10th Annual Pitch Party.

Although we didn’t place, Firefighter Dan™ had a great showing. We had a lot of great support! One of the judges selected Firefighter Dan™ as a Favorite. Thanks to everyone that supported us and we look forward to being a part of FireLife and sharing our animated  Safety Tips!

 

 

COLORING FUN SHEETS FOR THE KIDS

These are the first set of Firefighter Dan™ fun sheets that will be available here at Firelife.com as well as on FirefighterDan.com. Show us your final product and if we post it on our blog, we will send you a postcard autographed by Firefighter Dan™  creator Tim Saguinsin.  

Please keep coming back for updates here on FireLife as well as at FirefighterDan.com.

Tim SaguinsinTim Saguinsin

Raised in Virginia Beach, VA, Tim Saguinsin spent much of his childhood with a pencil and a paintbrush in hand. He continued on with his artistic endeavors attending the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his BFA in General Fine Arts in 1995.

After graduating, Tim traveled overseas to London, England where he transformed his talents of painting and sculpture to animation and graphics creating educational content. While in London, Tim co-founded re-Animate Educational Software producing over thirty awarding winning educational products. Returning to America in 2001, Tim took an Art Director position at k12, Inc. where he continues to educate through graphics and animation.

Tim also does freelance animation and graphics through Ricecooker Studios, LLC . He has done work for Zynga, Big Huge Games, Pearson Education UK, Sherston Software UK, the Black Eyed Peas, AARP, Redbox, Microsoft and many others.

Tim is a certified Firefighter and volunteered at Nokesville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department in Prince William County Virginia between 2004-2007. Tim is also certified in the state of New Jersey and is looking to get back into volunteering in addition to creating Firefighter Dan™.

Tim lives in New Jersey with his wife and two boys, who adore Firefighter Dan™.

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