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During the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), earlier this year, Mackinnon & Saunders (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Corpse Bride, Mars Attacks …) discussed their work on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Richard Pickersgill, lead puppet maker, Mackinnon & Saunders, UK, details how he and his team created the puppets used on this stop-motion project.
The conference was recorded, and the video is now available online:
For more information, here are two videos we shared on our Youtube channel (don’t forget to subscribe!) about the movie:
- a video tour of an exhibition in Paris that showcased props, puppets and concept arts from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
- an interview with VFX supervisor Aaron Weintraub from MPC Toronto about the VFX behind Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Chapters are available. Short introduction in French, the interview itself is in English.
00:00 – Introduction
00:23 – Interview
00:39 – How MPC got the job
01:08 – MPC, directors, studio
02:04 – GDT & Gustafson / VFX
03:39 – practical vs CGI
04:17 – visual references
04:47 – Fire sims
06:53 – Ocean & water sims
09:49 – seashore [SPOILERS] [SPOILERS]
10:40 – skies
14:28 – environments (Limbo, Dogfish)
16:46 – Covid & remote work
17:42 – crowds
19:04 – digi doubles, 3D scans
21:40 – weather, rain, snow
24:28 – rig removal, cleanup, “charm”
28:04 – animation on ones, twos
29:25 – recognition
30:25 – GDT – most memorable shot?
31:51 – Tron Legacy, Silent Hill
