After freelance assignments in comic books and gaming magazines, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams in Hollywood at age 17.
In 1988, after Collora landed a job at Stan Winston Studios on Leviathan, he became known as a creature designer and sculptor.
Collora attracted attention with his 2003 short film Batman: Dead End, intended to act as a director's demonstration reel.
After premiering the film at San Diego Comic-Con,[3] it became popular on the Internet, and was downloaded more than 600,000 times in the first week.
[7] In 2015 Collora stated that he was working on a new film entitled Shallow Water and was seeking to raise $550,000 via Kickstarter, making it the largest campaign of its type in the horror category.