LogInThe filmmaker pointed out that stop-motion animation is a rare AI-proof art.
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Guillermo del Toro, a renowned filmmaker, will collaborate with the GOBELINS Paris school and Netflix to form a stop-motion animation studio. It is intended to be a training center and a "living laboratory of experimentation and research."
The Mexican filmmaker told a group of reporters (via Le Monde) at the GOBELINS film school in Paris: "The names that are important in stop-motion are all over 50 years old." The director also pointed out that the art of stop-motion is an old-fashioned, almost disappearing artistic branch, noting that there are few artists engaged in the sphere: "Stop-motion is perpetually on the brink of extinction. And it is perpetually preserved by slightly crazy people. It's a tiny cult with very devoted individuals."
Guillermo del Toro also emphasized that stop-motion is an art form that lies beyond the capabilities of artificial intelligence, and that is what adds value to it:
"In an era in which you can have AI intruding in any other form of animation, this is AI-proof. So that is really good."
Ted Sarandos, CEO of Netflix, also pointed out that the "human touch" to the stop-motion art is an integral part of this art direction:
"What I really love about stop motion in an educational setting is that what I learned from this man (del Toro) is that stop motion is filmmaking. It's costume design, it's set design, it's lighting, it's camera, it's everything. Every discipline that you do to make a film, you’re doing in stop motion animation. The human touch of it is something that people see through."
Del Toro is the creator of the 2022 animated stop-motion film Pinocchio, and the studio will be a "living tribute to the great legacy" of the late Mark Gustafson, one of the creators of the film. The filmmaker also shared the first plans of the studio (via Variety), which include crafting a stop-motion project based on the novel "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have collaborated on the movie Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's novel. The movie, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Felix Kammerer, will come to the big screens in a limited theatrical release in October and globally on Netflix in November.
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