During the last couple months I have been working on a the title sequence for the new Showtime series “United States of Tara”. The show stars Toni Collette and was written by Diablo Cody. The idea of the show came from executive producer Steven Spielberg.

The Tara team wanted to have a paper pop-up style opening credits. We worked closely with Tara writer Dave Finkle on the boards and overall concept.

We had a top notch crew working around the clock which included the amazing illustrator Alex Juhazs, the unstoppable stop-motion animator Anthony Scott and the die hard Morgan Hay running the art department and kicking everyone’s ass to get it done. The job was produced through Duck Studios (L.A.) and shot in my satellite studio in Ojai CA.

We shot primarily with the Canon 40D and an iMac running Dragon Stop Motion 1.1. We also used a Nikon D300 and a Mac Pro so we could work in tandem.

We shot everything stop motion and built many working pop-up pages to show the different personalities that Tara shifts into during the first season.

I will be back to post more about these titles after they’re broadcast next week.