Animation Cocktail

About this title

Reel One of Jon Coley's Jonamation Trilogy; Jonamation referring to the filmmaker's mix of stop-motion animation and live-action. Coley uses the stop-motion technique to animate characters using a range of materials including clay models, puppets, shadow figures, hand-drawings, even inanimate objects such as cups and lamps spring to life in Coley's choregraphed sequences. Coley worked on these sequences under the supervision of filmmaker Ray Harryhausen.