Tiny Saints brings the saints to life with pitched animated series

Maura Baker

Staff Writer

It’s Carlo Acutis’s first day on the job — answering prayers out of “Intercession Station,” a fictional creation by the team behind the “Tiny Saints Show” where the saints work to answer our prayers.

This is the pitch for the first arc of the animated series — pitched for production by the Tiny Saints company, famous for its charms featuring “cartoon-ified” saints and other Catholic religious figures.

Ben West, creative director of Tiny Saints and one of the brains behind the Tiny Saints Show, who has a background in the animation field, is particularly excited for the project as it begins to take shape.

“The big picture is that, as a brand, we’ve always told the stories of the saints, just in a very tiny way,” said Mr. West, “This is an opportunity to go a little bigger.”

With over $115,000 raised in two weeks for the campaign, the show is pacing to reach its goal, but support is still needed, Mr. West said, with everything from the concepts, modeling, animation and more all put together by Tiny Saints’ dedicated team.

“The opportunity is here in an independent space where we’ve got a crack team who’s ready to bring a really high caliber animation to life,” Mr. West said. “We’ve got a brand and a group of people who are really passionate about this for all sorts of reasons, both from a storytelling perspective and a faith perspective.”

Faith, of course, being one of the animated series’ primary missions, according to Mr. West, in a culture over-saturated with children’s cartoons lacking heart and conscience.

With the goal to release a “pilot” episode in the spring, Tiny Saints continues to raise funds to bring the show to life — raising money right from their webpage, https://www.tinysaints.com.

“We need people’s donations to make it happen,” said Mr. West. “But spreading the word really is what counts for a lot … we’re thankfully well beyond the halfway point.”