The goal is to diversify as much as possible, which includes representing minority groups and covering a variety of topics.

The ideas are collected over a year in advance, with the team finalizing the schedule for the following year in late summer of the current one.ĭuffy explained that once submissions are collected, art directors and a team of 12 artists review each one.

Both worked on the Champion Island Games Doodle.ĭoodles begin as ideas from Google employees – anyone in the company can submit an idea for a Doodle, celebrating holidays, events, people (though only non-living people), and more. He joined the Doodles team after his friend Nate Swinehart, an animator on the team, referred him for an opening. He began his career at Dreamworks Animation with How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Penguins of Madagascar, before moving to 2K Games and eventually Disney, where he worked in Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) on Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange. Following its publication, The Beat spoke to Duffy to learn more about Google Doodles.ĭuffy joined the team as a producer four years ago, and has worked on Google Doodles involving “engineering, interactivity, music videos, things more complicated than a static piece of art.” Duffy has an impressive resume. In addition to notable animation and music, the Champion Island Games doodle had multiple, fully playable games. The very first Google DoodleĬolin Duffy was a Producer on the Google Doodle team, and worked on the recent Champion Island Games doodle that ran during the Tokyo Olympics. The VR Google Doodle celebrating Georges Méliès was even nominated for an Emmy in 2018. There are over 500 Doodles per year, with many running only in specific countries and regions.

Since then, Google Doodles have grown considerably. It was their out-of-office message, informing people that they were attending the California music festival Burning Man. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the first Google Doodle on August 30th, 1998.

The first google doodle