The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.

I was always really fascinated with animation, but just in a way all kids are with watching Disney movies and all that, but I had no idea how animation was done.

One of the biggest things for me was driving two hours to the location everyday, and then having to lug out two carts of equipment alone, and I always had to consider - I was shooting on a beach - I'm like, "Okay, bring out the props first that no one will steal," because I have to leave it unattended for a couple minutes while I grab my second cart of things.

I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?