Bubbles Burst claymation sequence for Les Claypool and Sean Lennon

I did the claymation sequence at the end. There's a bit of back story in this NPR piece:
NPR interview with Sean Lennon

Direction, Animation, Camera, Compositing
Webster Colcord

Design, Sculpture, Fabrication
Damon Bard

Additional fabrication
Mike Murnane
Ralph Cordero
Fon Davis
Eliot Sirota
Sabrina Wichner
Keri Palmetto

Rigging Assistance
Justin Kohn

Rig Removal Assistance
Raj Solanki

Special Thanks
Ivan Landau
Erin Colcord

Below is the animatic:

And here's timelapse of drawing the animatic:

What Makes It Fun podcast

Around February 2015, while working on Ted 2, I was invited sorta out-of-the-blue to a stranger's house in L.A. to do a podcast interview.  It turned out to be a really fun evening, talking with Joe and Ami about animation, game work, and so on...

What Makes It Fun podcast

Ted 2 photos

Now that the movie is out, I will be posting more pictures from my year on Ted 2.  This is from one particularly interesting day, when the team was called in early to get some temp shots done quickly for a sequence called "Hooker Ted". 

In the L.A. studio

Working on a couple of small claymation projects for a short while, at my home studio in L.A., before starting on the next big CG project...

Straight To Hell Returns stop-motion animation breakdown

In 2010 director Alex Cox ("Repo Man", "Sid & Nancy") contacted me to create two new stop-motion skeleton shots for his 80's film "Straight to Hell", which was getting some new VFX for a re-release.  After completing the shots, I pitched to him the idea of doing a third shot in stop-motion for a different part of the film.  This is a breakdown reel that explains the making of the three shots.  And thanks to my old pal Lionel Orozco for giving me a very kind write-up about this on his site:  Stopmotionworks