Purpose

This ministry exists to provide artwork for other ministries, churches, mission organizations, and individuals who are doing the Lord’s work and could benefit from having tailored artwork for their needs. Art has been used in the church for centuries. It is a form of communication that transcends language barriers, as well as being emotionally impactful.

Bio

Marissa holds a bachelor of science in Digital Media Arts Animation and has been a missionary with Central Missionary Clearinghouse (CMC) since 2023. Prior to that, she spent six years doing freelance artwork for businesses, individuals, film studios, and nonprofits. Feeling that missions work was a better use of her talent, Marissa is now raising funds to be a full-time missionary with CMC, rather than her current part-time missionary work. She will be creating animations and illustrations for Christian ministries, missionaries, and churches. This artwork is to be done at the lowest possible cost to the ministries requesting it, because the work will be funded through donations to CMC.

CMC’s website: https://cmcmissions.org/

Services

Marissa offers two services to missionaries:

Animation

• Gospel-centered videos
• Fundraising videos
• Animated logos
• Animated characters
• Children’s material
• Text animation over live film
• Other

Illustration

• Manuals
• Tracts
• Children’s materials
• Murals
• Other

Recommendations

Marissa always brought quality work to her comics, and turned them in in a timely fashion so that I could organize it with the others long before the layout was due for printing. Her style and sense of humor is very charming and I always looked forward to what she would make next.

–Kayla Mitchell, Freelance Animator/Illustrator

Marissa Pruett is a thoughtful professional illustrator with specific skills in animation. She excels at balancing the necessary details with captivating consistent character development. She has the team member traits to tell compelling stories, communication, honesty, collaboration, and time management. Having a self-starter on the team made our project progress smoothly. Marissa also was beneficial for our team when we were indecisive and needed guidance. I would highly recommend Marissa for any project.

–Jack Kinney, Consultant at SonSet Solutions

Marissa is a talented and hardworking young artist/animator. She is great at observing life’s small moments which show up in here [sic] work in the most delightful ways.

Marissa also has the tenacity to keep pushing forward , whether it be her personal film (which is stunning) or her artistic abilities. As an instructor, it’s been so cool to watch Marissa’s talents, work ethic, and personal vision emerge these past four years. I’m looking forward to seeing where they take her!

–Steve Leeper, Director of Animation at Huntington University

I was one of Marissa professors in our Digital Media Arts program and she has been one of my favorite students. Her artwork is touching and wonderful, she takes direction really really well, and she is an all around team player. I can’t recommend her highly enough.

–Bryan Ballinger, Professor of Digital Media Arts at Huntington University