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Production Designer Paul Harrod Talks "Isle of Dogs"
Paul Harrod is an American animation director, production designer and art director with a special emphasis on stop-motion.
Contents
- Production Designer Paul Harrod Talks Isle of Dogs
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- Awardsaccolades
- Family Life
- References
Early life
Paul Harrod was born was born in Menlo Park, California on February 5, 1958 to Lee and Betty Harrod.
Education
Paul Harrod attended the California Institute of The Arts, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1988. He was awarded numerous scholarships and was a teaching assistant for Art School Video Production and the Institute Sculpture Program. Harrod was also Chairman of Student Council Film Series and he curated and presented numerous programs of experimental, documentary and narrative cinema. While in school at Cal Arts he sculpted aliens for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Career
After graduating from Cal Arts, Harrod sculpted an alien for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and designed and built the opening title sequence of Pee Wee's Playhouse (CBS Television) in 1989-90, which won an Emmy Award in 1989. In 1990, he designed and art directed the "All I Want" music video for The Lightning Seeds (MCA Records) which was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1992 he worked with Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner on an animated television special, "Edith Ann: Life in the Little Lane" (Omnipotent Productions) and, in 1993, Harrod designed the Clio Award-winning commercial, Chips Ahoy, "In The Bag" at Will Vinton Studios. Other clients from this era include Cool Mint Listerine (Canada), Fanta, "Fanta Si Boy" "Refrigerator Ride" (Latin America), Levis For Women (USA), Kellogs Pop-Tarts, "Blade Runner" (USA), California Raisins, "What's For Breakfast?" (USA), all for Will Vinton Studios. In 1995, he worked at the Aardman Studio in Bristol, UK where he designed the first Chevron "Talking Car" commercials. Also in 1995, he taught animation production and design at Volda University College (Volda Norway) for six months, graduating the first animation students in Norway.
Harrod's emphasis has been in stop-motion animation and between 1999 and 2001, he directed five episodes of the television series, "The PJs", for which he was nominated for an Annie Award in 2000.
He was also the first production designer on the series and he oversaw the production of all the sets and puppets. Harrod went on to direct the first episode of UPN's quirky animated series "Gary and Mike" and he designed and directed the pilot for Warner Brother's "Slacker Cats," both while employed at Will Vinton Studios. From 2004 to 2014, Harrod directed animated commercials at Bent Image Lab where his clients include Alltel Wireless, Kelloggs' Twistables, Cartoon Network, and Aflac. His spot "Koi Pond," for Tractor Supply Company, was voted one of the 50 best spots of 2006 by Adweek.
Since 2008, Harrod has curated and presented a monthly film screening and lecture at Mother's Velvet Lounge in Portland, Oregon. Themes for the series have included "Italian Westerns", "Film Noir" and “Dreams, The Subconscious and the Surreal”. He frequently travels to film festivals all over the world, where he occasionally presents programs of his commercials and television shows. In 2014 Harrod began his own company, Sticky Films, and directed and designed a sequence for the end credits of 22 Jump Street. He lived to London from 2015 to 2017 when he was the production designer on Isle of Dogs, a stop motion animated feature directed by Wes Anderson.
Awards/accolades
Family Life
Paul Harrod lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, filmmaker Joanna Priestley and two cats.