About Threadwood

Photo by Kaitlin K. Walsh

Threadwood is a boutique animation studio located in upstate New York. It's run by Emmy Award-winning animation professionals Alexis Deprey and Scott DaRos. Producing both client projects and original content, Threadwood brings unique, handmade design sensibilities to clay, stop-motion, and 2D animation projects. Since forming Threadwood, the pair has worked with clients such as Nickelodeon, BUCK Design, Jonas & Co., LEGO, SyFy, and more.

With a combined 20+ years of experience in the animation industry, Alexis and Scott have developed strong leadership, creative, and organizational skills. Their background in illustration aids their work in animation and cinematography by emphasizing important features like composition, color, and clarity of visual storytelling.

Both have professional illustration and animation experience and have worked on projects independently for network shows such as Robot Chicken, SuperMansion, SpongeBob Squarepants, Dinosaur Office, Mad and feature films like the recent stop-motion Pinocchio.

Photo by Kaitlin K. Walsh

Alexis Deprey
Co-Creative Director
An experienced Art Director & Production Designer who has worked on television productions such as Robot Chicken and SuperMansion. Alexis has had extensive commercial work with clients like Goldfish, Amazon, Apple, Mattel, and more.
Alexis was the Art Director for seasons 8 & 9 of Robot Chicken when both season's Christmas Specials earned Emmys. Additionally, Alexis is currently a visiting lecturer for animation at RIT.

Photo by Kaitlin K. Walsh

Scott DaRos
Co-Creative Director
An experienced Animator, Animation Director, and Director specializing in stop motion and claymation. Scott's work can be seen in film & TV projects like Pinocchio, SpongeBob SquarePants, Robot Chicken, and Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. He has earned Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and Outstanding Short Form Animation. Scott has also been nominated for an additional Emmy Award and two Annie Awards.

WHAT WE DO

From the spark of an idea to the finished product
we are a full-service animation studio that handles:

PRE-PRODUCTION

Storyboard production
Character design
Production design
Writing
Puppet fabrication
Set and prop fabrication

PRODUCTION

Animation (stop-motion, clay animation, 2D)
Camera and lighting
Stage setup
Set dressing

POST-PRODUCTION

Visual effects
Sound design and engineering
Editing

We also offer stop-motion production consulting for a fee.
We can help you figure out how to get started
and bring your project across the finish line!

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Clients include

AWARDS

Scott has earned Emmy awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and Outstanding Short Form Animation for his character animation and animation direction. Scott has also been nominated for a 3rd Emmy and 2 Annie awards for animation direction and character animation.

Alexis was the Art Director for seasons 8 & 9 of Robot Chicken; both seasons won an Emmy for their Christmas specials. Season 9 was also nominated for the Outstanding Short Form Animated Program Emmy in 2019.

Threadwood was a winner at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was featured in the inaugural Cardiff Animation Festival.