new book with interview

Ken Priebe has just finished his new book, The Advanced Art of Stop Motion Animation and it features an interview with me and Larry Bafia about our work in the Vinton era of clay animation and beyond.

Life Drawing 05

Life Drawing 04

The Dandy Warhols, "Welcome to the 3rd World"

The Dandy Warhols, "Welcome to the Third World" director's cut from Webster Colcord on Vimeo.

After a long wait while little tweaks were made to meet the approval of the band, this music video that I directed is finally being released out into the world. You can view it as streaming video here and it's also available as a download on iTunes.

Seargeant Siren

In honor of the incident report that my 10-year old son Edward got today at school for misbehaving, I present this drawing that I did for him when he was about 5. Fisher Price marketed these macho toys called "Rescue Heroes" to little kids and they would package an animated movie on DVD along with the toy. This is a little drawing that I made for him on a piece of cardboard, the toy is on the right. The two dust spirals were Ed's contribution.

If you want to see a drawing by Edward, you can find one on a t-shirt in my store.

For all the nice people I've met at Monsterpalooza

...particularly for those of you who attended my little presentation on Friday, here are links to the three episodes that I've made so far of my stop-motion series "Mad Doctors of Borneo".

Mad Doctors of Borneo 1 from Webster Colcord on Vimeo.

Mad Doctors of Borneo 3 from Webster Colcord on Vimeo.

Mad Doctors of Borneo 24 from Webster Colcord on Vimeo.

California Raisin refurbished

I just finished cleaning up this old California Raisin for display. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo, I'll try to take a better one and replace it. If memory serves, I built this particular puppet and animated it in the last shot of this PSA for the Public Library: Raisin Rap

That's my hand that comes down and stamps the book in the last shot. All of the Raisins for the PSA were made using existing molds from "Meet the Raisins" - this Raisin is "BeBop." Vince Backeberg fabricated all of the legs for the Raisins, I think. I also animated the shot where "Red" says "Check 'em out." Hal Hickel, Larry Bafia, Brad Johnson and the late Bruce McKean also worked on the PSA. Sir Mix-a-Lot did the music.