I was always really fascinated with animation, but just in a way all kids are with watching Disney movies and all that, but I had no idea how animation was done.

I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.

For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.