Chris Cunningham began his career in 1989 working on animatronics for the TV series Spitting Image. In the early 1990s he contributed animatronics and sculpture for the films Alien 3 and Judge Dredd. After his work on Judge Dredd, Stanley Kubrick recruited Cunningham to design animatronics for the robot child in A.I., though Cunningham later left the project to pursue a career in music videos. From 1996-1999, Cunningham produced 19 music videos and won a Mirrorball award. In later years he focused on commercials, video art, and short films, taking a sabbatical in 2004-2005 to learn about music production.