Paper Brain Productions

10/10/2025

08/23/2025

Every animator’s origin story starts somewhere. Animation has taken me from my garage workshop all the way to streaming networks and beyond, and now I get to share some of that with local students 🎬✂️
I’ll be teaching a Handcrafted + Digital Animation class this fall at these elementary schools for .
If you’re in the area or know families with kids who’d love to explore animation, here’s the info.

08/19/2025

✂️🧠 Want to break into kids’ animation?
Here’s what I wish I knew before I ever struck it out on my own. (Spoiler: it ain’t just “make it cuter.”)
👉 Full video on YouTube — link in bio.

05/26/2025

Wowzers, what an incredible response! Once again we're humbled at how many amazingly talented individuals applied for this year's internship. If only we had more people to run this with us, then we'd bring everyone onboard that needs this experience. We're going to officially close down the submissions for applicants so we can focus on who would benefit the most from this year's program. But a huge thank you to everyone who shared our posts and spread the word and took the time to apply. It's always so cool to meet new creatives!

05/06/2025

The Kraken! We got old-school in the Howler Brothers film Bermuda Triangle Mutation and used a 7 inch toy to create the 30 foot tall sea beast, animating it through stop-motion. So and flexed their acting chops when I was filming them aboard a high-speed Donzi and pretended their Howler clothing was being snatched off them by a three-story behemoth. So here are a few clips of the beast before it got properly composited into the video footage (you can see the whole film on Howler Brothers page).

05/05/2025

Little Spoon and a certain purple dinosaur have some fun news coming soon… we got to help them craft the trailer and announcement. Stay tuned!

05/02/2025

When Paper Brain was just starting as a full time animation studio in Houston, Texas many years ago, one of the goals on our "animation bucket list" was to make an animation for the show that was such a big part of our childhood, Sesame Street. Fast forward to 2025 and we can say that this year marks the tenth year Paper Brain has been making animated letter and number films for Sesame Street and the Sesame Workshop. We can't think of a better way to celebrate that than sharing our most recent number film, "Number 8 Space." Airing on the ninth episode titled "A Trip to the Moon," this animation follows eight astronauts on a number-filled voyage to the moon. The score was done by composer Gregory Pepper, and the confident voice over from Mission Control was done by Violet Ray. Lisa Ray fabricated many of the paper assets, and all the characters were made with real construction paper, then composited into 3D paper and cardboard environments using After Effects.

Copyright 2025 The Sesame Workshop, all rights reserved.

Uploaded with permission from the Sesame Workshop. Returning to the cartoon modern character design we used in our film Nine to Five Ned, Paper Brain made a stop-motion…

05/01/2025

04/30/2025

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04/30/2025

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02/27/2025

We got to talk about some fun stuff on this morning. How set me on a creative path, and how I’ve gotten to work with some rad + inspiring interns over the last few years ( , video of your working on Ned made its way into the cut!). , I did a quick paper stop-motion demonstration with the dog you made a paper template for. And of course my drip was 100% in all the footage.

A huge thanks to for filming and editing this segment with his creative magic, as well as and all the good people at GDH for being so cool as to make this segment a part of their show.

Link in bio to see the segment on greatdayhouston.com

http://alturl.com/4dh83