Paul Harrod - Designer, Art Director and Director - Stop-Motion Animation

This month, I'm chatting to Paul HARROD - he has kindly shared his short bio so, please see below for Paul's impressive CV: 

Paul has worked three decades as a designer, art director and director of both
animated and live action projects, with a special emphasis on stop-motion animation.

In his capacity as a designer, model maker and sculptor, he lent his skills to such diverse projects as sculpting aliens for Star Trek V and designing and building miniature sets for the opening titles of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. 

Specializing in designing environments for visual effects and stop-motion projects, he set the tone for a variety of commercial campaigns, including the first several Chevron “Talking Cars” spots at Aardman Animations in 1994, a campaign which continues to this day.

Harrod served as Senior Art Director at Will Vinton Studios from 1995 through 2001, overseeing the design demands of all studio output. He served as production designer and episode director on the Fox TV series, “The PJs” for which he was nominated for an Annie award in 2000.

His animated commercials for Tractor Supply Company (TSC) produced at Bent Image Lab received awards and attention for their outstanding creative design and dry, understated humor. TSC’s “Koi Pond”, was voted one of the 50 best spots of 2006 by Adweek. He has directed numerous commercials for clients including Kellogg’s Twistables, Quaker, Chips Ahoy!, Hallmark, Ensure, Cartoon Network, Lowes, Aflac and AT&T.

In 2015 he was co-Production Designer with Adam Stockhausen on Wes Anderson's stopmotion feature, Isle Of Dogs and received the 2019 Art Directors Guild award for Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Feature.

“My visual style has always been guided by a love for cinema history, and since 2007 have curated monthly film screenings at Mother’s Velvet Lounge in Portland OR, where I live with my wife, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Priestley.”