Webster Colcord

A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential. Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 80s and 90s. But after 30 years of being the unheralded king of clay, Will Vinton’s carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close collaborators, the film charts the rise and fall of the Academy Award and Emmy winning Will Vinton Studios.

Music video for Beats Antique featuring Les Claypool on Bass and vocals. Animated in Claymation, in the style of a "oner", or one continuous shot. As part of Beats Antique's "Thousand Faces" tour, this film was projected in-concert on a screen behind the band, along with projection mapped claymation elements in front of the band.

In 1993 I had a weird dream one night, a few weeks later it had morphed into the storyboard for this film, which features my friend Scot Campbell. Scot is a great painter and art car enthusiast. He's also known as Extremo the Clown. We shot most of the live action in one day in 16mm. The stop motion animation was added in the weeks following. At the time I was really into the films of Alex Winter and Tom Stern, so some of the flavor of this short might come from that influence. Later that year I had the opportunity to help out briefly with the title sequence to their film "Freaked".

Short Animation by Webster Colcord

Our favorite football head Arnold goes to church and daydreams about the 23rd psalm.

Psycho skeletal experiment zone

Music video for Beats Antique featuring Les Claypool on Bass and vocals. Animated in Claymation, in the style of a "oner", or one continuous shot. As part of Beats Antique's "Thousand Faces" tour, this film was projected in-concert on a screen behind the band, along with projection mapped claymation elements in front of the band.

Music video for Beats Antique featuring Les Claypool on Bass and vocals. Animated in Claymation, in the style of a "oner", or one continuous shot. As part of Beats Antique's "Thousand Faces" tour, this film was projected in-concert on a screen behind the band, along with projection mapped claymation elements in front of the band.

In 1993 I had a weird dream one night, a few weeks later it had morphed into the storyboard for this film, which features my friend Scot Campbell. Scot is a great painter and art car enthusiast. He's also known as Extremo the Clown. We shot most of the live action in one day in 16mm. The stop motion animation was added in the weeks following. At the time I was really into the films of Alex Winter and Tom Stern, so some of the flavor of this short might come from that influence. Later that year I had the opportunity to help out briefly with the title sequence to their film "Freaked".

Short Animation by Webster Colcord

Psycho skeletal experiment zone

A post-apocalyptic teenage miracle, shot on Super 8, self-distributed on VHS in 1989.

A simple animated film based on the soundtrack from a 60's Lutheran Church radio show entitled "Silhouette", which was then used as part of an album by a Portland, Oregon noise band. The host of the show, John Rydgren, is reading a poem sent in by a 16-year-old girl.

When a farmer begins to slaughter his pigs, the remaining swine build a pig that is more than he bargained for...