emmy Award Winning Creative Director + Motion Design + VFX + EDITORIAL

SHOWREELS

Notable Clients

What We Do:

  • Motion Design & Animation

  • VFX & Compositing

  • Brand Identity & Title Sequence Design

  • Creative Direction & Concepting

  • Production & Team Management

THE SKULL CLOSET STORY

Hi, I'm Alex. Over the course of 20 years I've led motion design and VFX teams for some of the most demanding clients and deadlines in the business — including 7 years at ESPN and an Emmy that proves we can hang with the best of them.I started Skull Closet because great creative shouldn't be complicated, precious, or ruinously expensive. Think of us as your swiss army knife — experienced enough to know what works, scrappy enough to make it happen on your timeline and your budget.No bloated process. No mystery pricing. Just sharp creative and a straight conversation."Skull Closet" is a metaphor for that place where all of our best ideas come from.
Consider us your brain's best-kept secret.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Alex Popkin is an emmy-award winning Motion Designer.Before founding Skull Closet, he was Head of Motion Design at Ingenuity Studios, and before that Lead Designer at ESPN.Originally from Lexington, MA, Alex has lived in Los Angeles since 2011.He loves sports, movies, animation, comic books, traveling abroad, listening to podcasts and spending time with his wife Andrea and twin boys, Harrison (L) and Maxwell (R).

Design + Fun

A gallery of graphic design, 3D art, illustration, other miscellaneous artwork from deeper in the closet.