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Nick Cross

Director, Art Director

Nick Cross art directed Over the Garden Wall and is now the art director of the Shorts Program at Cartoon Network.

Nick mentored Andrea Schmitz.

Close-up of the Antumbra book cover, showing the title over a warm orange and blue gradient design.
Thesis
Antumbra

You weren’t supposed to wake up yet.

You are a crew member aboard the Astraeus, a generation ship 270 years into a 580 year voyage. CHARON, the ship’s AI assures you that it’s a minor fault causing your premature awakening– not…

This image shows my main character Aurora inside of a computer with Bit, the pixelated parakeet
Thesis
Cyber Clique
Aurora’s first night in college is changed when she receives a mysterious package with a strange disk inside. When she loads it to her computer, she gets trapped inside a digital world. She must team up with a pixelated parakeet to defeat the virus p…
Dragons Bleed Black
Thesis
Dragons Bleed Black
500 years after the death of the dragons, a lonely girl named Penance—the last dragon in existence—meets a wayward street rat named Noah. Over the course of one long night, they find meaning in each other’s isolation and awaken a serpent at the e…
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