The Californian based studio, Parodjects, is made up of the versatile husband and wife team, Joel Parod and Claire Armstrong Parod, who work together as animation directors and designers.

Recently, they just completed a year and a half stint working in collaboration with Z Animation, which began with the early 2005 release of Longford Home's Emmy winning commercial, “Home of Your Dreams”. This resulted in animation direction and design for Natasha Bedingfield’s, “These Words” music video (USA), and culminated with design and direction for the Microsoft “Realizing Potential” 2006 Global Corporate Branding Campaign.

Previously, the Parods worked together at Acme Filmworks, Hollywood, on the 3D Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo commercial, and a series of the 2D Charmin Bear commercials, where Claire directed and Joel art directed.

Claire and Joel first met in 1996 at Warner Brothers Feature Animation in Los Angeles, where Joel was a visual development artist and background artist and Claire was a character animator and character designer. Claire went on to work as an in-house animation director at Cinesite, Hollywood, while Joel was an art director on Wild Brain's award winning short, "Hubert’s Brain".

Both received their degrees in Illustration, Joel from San Jose State University, USA, and Claire from Kingston University, England. Claire also went on to receive an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London.