It took 15 years for Academy Award-profitable filmmaker Guillermo del Toro to carry his stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio to life. In Netflix’s new behind-the-scenes clip, the director invitations us to geek out with him over the puppeteering mastery at work together with his group in collaboration with Henson Studios.

Del Toro seems so pleased with his boy, posed with the assorted sized Pinocchio figures. He’s clearly a true fan of the artwork type, and it’s such a pleasure to see del Toro spotlight the great thing about stop-motion that different mediums can’t replicate totally within the dwelling approach he mentions, all the way down to the small print of material and mud. There’s magic in that and we are able to’t wait to see him conduct a brand new fairytale that will certainly stand aside in Del Toro’s signature whimsical fantasy model. Between Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild (additionally a Netflix manufacturing) and this, we’re excited for the way forward for stop-motion.

Pinocchio releases this November in choose theaters and streams on Netflix in December.

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