Starburns Industries, Inc.

Starburns Industries, Inc. Starburns Industries is a groundbreaking, full-service production studio specializing in 2-D and sto

Founded in 2010 by Joe Russo, James Fino, Dino Stamatopoulos, and Dan Harmon, Starburns Industries began doing top-shelf stop motion animation. Starburns Industries has 16,000 square feet of production space that includes a puppet fabrication shop, set construction shop, On-Site Voice-Over recording and ADR, storyboarding, 16 Canon 7D/Dragon software set ups, Motion Control, editorial (including Stereo-scopic 3D), VFX, Post, and much more.

We think our shows should be much lower on this list, but we’ll take it. Thanks !!
03/19/2026

We think our shows should be much lower on this list, but we’ll take it. Thanks !!

🎩 Announcing Abraham Lincoln’s 3rd cousin 4 times removed, Tom Hanks, will be portraying him in our upcoming adaptation ...
02/23/2026

🎩 Announcing Abraham Lincoln’s 3rd cousin 4 times removed, Tom Hanks, will be portraying him in our upcoming adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo!

Yesterday was Abraham Lincoln’s 217th birthday and today we are celebrating by announcing our newest feature film, Linco...
02/13/2026

Yesterday was Abraham Lincoln’s 217th birthday and today we are celebrating by announcing our newest feature film, Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the novel by George Saunders and directed by our very own Duke Johnson!!
More to come!! 🎩

Introducing a coupla chefs and announcing our new film fund!!Excited to get cooking! 🧑‍🍳
02/09/2026

Introducing a coupla chefs and announcing our new film fund!!

Excited to get cooking! 🧑‍🍳

We know you love this Instacart stuff SO much that we wanted to show how the process of character design gets translated...
12/20/2025

We know you love this Instacart stuff SO much that we wanted to show how the process of character design gets translated to physical puppets!! 👌👌

Stopmo Director: Michael Granberry

2D Character Designs: Blake Ditto & Steven Chunn

Puppet supervisor: Caroline Kastelic

12/18/2025

EETZA GOODA HOLIDAY! 👌🎄

We had the pleasure of working with and to produce a collection of magical holiday spots. Lead by the incomparable and !

STOP MO
Stop Mo Direction: Michael Granberry
Executive Producer: James Fino
Supervising Producer: Alyssa Choate Rusche

Line Producer: Blanca Uribe
Production Manager / Assistant Director: Andy Warren
Creative Development: Chris Callison
Production Coordinator: Ariana Celestine
Post Production Supervisor: Brittany Gates
Production Assistant: Sydney Mills
Production Accountant: Greg Ashamalla

Director of Photography: Jeffrey Gardner
Cam Op: Warren Sheetz , Macy Armstrong .c.macy , Eric Wann .wann.ac
& Cameron Dunbar

Animation
Animator: Alex Kamer & Suzanne Twining
Assistant Animator: Shea Ramsey

Puppets
Supervisor: Caroline Kastelic
Fabricator: Oliver Chapman, Stephanie James .james.5872 , Aaron Rivera , Dick Kaneshiro , Jennifer Romey , Jenny Hogan

Costumes
Supervisor: Felicia Bleu Rose
Fabricator: Olivia Valdez , Christine Bald & Sasha Schotzko-Harris

Art Director: Ellen C***s
Builder / Set Dresser: Dilean Jimenez
and Anuardi Cantre
Builder: Warren Rush, Kevin Fallon & Josh Mahan
Prop Fabricator: Melody Palisoc
Builder / Painter: Amber Padgett
Painter: Maura Takesh*ta

Storyboard Artist: Sarah Avery .avery and John Martinez

Character Designer: Blake Ditto and Steven Chunn

Editor: Hank Friedmann
Assistant Editor: Jarred Endress

VFX
Supervisor: Joseph Statom
Artist: Brian Kokoszka, Paul Evangelista, Ashley-Martin Dunn

Color: Swing Shift Post
Colorist: Kelly Reese

Department of Music & Boom Box Post

12/16/2025

In honor of last week’s mind melting retrospective at we wanted to share a piece of animation he did with us for ‘s Netflix series Clark starring !

Series Created & Directed by
Animationexekutivproducent (Executive Producer): James Fino
Animationsproducent (Animation Producer): Casey Rup
Animatōr: Josh Shaffner
Animationskoordinator (Animation Coordinator): Chris Callison

11/27/2025

Be careful of who you break bread with this Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗

10/07/2025

Tis the season 🧟‍♂️

10/05/2025

Reverend Putty Sundays ⛪️🙏

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1101 W Isabel Street
Burbank, CA
91506

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