The Olsen Twins go apartment hunting. (Starveillance, 2007)

It seems like a contradiction -- one is spontaneous, invented on the spot while the other requires countless painstaking hours to create.  Yet when unscripted audio is met with the appropriate animated imagery, the results are often hilarious, heartwarming and highly entertaining.

1633 B’Way, home of Celebrity Deathmatch

Building a stop-motion animation studio can be a challenging endeavor.  Especially when that studio is located on the 31^st floor of a corporate office building right smack in Midtown Manhattan.  As MTV animation VP John Lynn, animation supervisor Greg Pair and I imagined the logistics of producing a stop motion TV series, there really was no other choice.  There was no model for how to do a show like this because nothing like it had ever been attempted.  So we took the basic template for making the original Deathmatch shorts and expanded it out.

I feel the time is right to push the medium further and explore an arena previously untouched by stop-motion animation – the action/adventure genre. Havoc will potentially be the first film of its kind, a stop-motion action film. Havoc is a lone warrior, forced into battle against a legion of vicious mutants. At stake: his survival AND the fate of humankind! Part human, part genetic mutation.

To realize this dream I’ve recently launched a Kickstarter campaign. Investment in this project will go towards the production of a three minute film which will introduce Havoc, the character, as well as the tone and visual style of the world he lives in.