Career
Hodge became interested in film-making while he was in 7th grade when he stumbled upon his dad"s 8 mm camera and spent his summer making short films using clay and other materials. Hodge later went on to attend Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He got his first job in animation at the then-current/now-defunct Willming-Reams Animation studio in San Antonio, Texas, where he drew animated television commercials for seven years, at the same time studying at the San Antonio Art Institute.
He later joined the Walt Disney Feature Animation studio located at the Disney/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida.
lieutenant was in 2000 that he took his family and moved north to Chicago, Illinois to join the studios of Big Idea Productions at the Yorktown Center mall and started working in computer animation. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Vocal Performance in 2003 for his role as Khalil in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
He currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee.