Rob Schrab’s Crooked Teeth
by Stuart Robertson on March 14th, 2006 | designmeme
Directions is a series of 11 Short Films inspired by the 11 tracks on Death Cab for Cutie’s grammy nominated album Plans. This week features Rob Schrab’s video for Crooked Teeth—a DIYtastic mix of cardboard and rubber band puppets, stop-motion animation, and post-production graphics. When you consider it has dragons, pirates, mummies and robots, what more could you really ask for?
In the mid-nineties Rob Schrab wrote, illustrated and self-published the cult comic book Scud: the Disposable Assasin. Along with Dan Harmon, he also wrote and produced the TV pilot “Heat Vision and Jack” which starred Jack Black and Owen Wilson, with directing by Ben Stiller. Unfortunately the network decided to pass on the show, something about it being “too funny”, and it was never aired.
This led to Rob and Dan creating Channel 101, a monthly competition to create 5 minute pilots for fictitious TV shows. Rob started mixing puppets and greenscreen to create his shows in a technique he calls “Draw-less Animation”.
I’ve been a fan of Rob’s work since I first saw his short film Robot Bastard, a carboard robot sci-fi epic. However, Crooked Teeth is close competition for the title of best cardboard robot film ever. I’ve probably watched it about a dozen times already, and each time I see something else I want to ask him about.
Fortunately I’m going to be doing some work with Rob over the next few weeks, and might be able to trick him into sharing some of his secrets with me. I will of course, share those tips with you.
Stay tuned!
Stuart Robertson
Rob Schrab on March 21, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Wow! Thanks for the plug. Great job on the site.