The renowned filmmaker pictured Pinocchio as a bratty kid making ... motion animation. Stop-motion animators bring characters to life one frame at a time, manipulating puppets millimeter by ...

Del Toro, whose stop motion “Pinocchio” combines face replacement and mechanical manipulation of puppets, thinks the hand-crafted nature of the medium plays to some very human cravings.

Robert Morgan is first and foremost a stop-motion animators cutting his teeth ... with Morgan at Fantastic Fest about how to make these puppets look as gnarly as possible, directing Aisling ...

The director explained, “It was clear to me that the film needed to be done in stop-motion to serve the story about a puppet that lives in a world populated by other puppets who think they are ...

The petite size of the Marcel puppets, which don’t have any internal armature as most stop-motion characters do, also required added precision when bringing it to life. “It’s literally 1 ...

“I’ve never thought that stop-motion is a cutesy kid thing,” Morgan told Entertainment ... building little puppets and then doing this strange ritual on them which brings them to life.” ...

I feared the puppets would be delicate, but they were sturdy and easy to manipulate. It was a wonderfully tactile, personal experience. This, del Toro said, is why he chose stop-motion animation ...

“It’s going to be a cozy walk through memory lane with our alumni who specialize in stop motion,” Banna said. “It’s a beautiful way to get connected with that history.” The displayed artifacts — ...

The most memorable and impactful stop-motion ... their little puppets, building a domain of their own design, can be a little unsettling. More than other animation styles, stop-motion constantly ...

THAT WAY YOU GET THAT SLIGHT STAGGERED LOOK. SO THE BEST WAY TO PLAY WITH STOP MOTION IS GOING TO BE USING A STICKY NOTE PAD. WHEN I WAS A KID, I WOULD DO THIS ALL THE TIME WHERE YOU TAKE A LITTLE ...