Mexican director Guillermo del Toro in Los Angeles, California on October 6. MICHAEL TRAN / AFP
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said Friday, October 10, he was teaming up with a Paris film school and Netflix to launch a training studio to help old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques survive.
Stop-motion is the oldest form of animation, involving manipulating real-life models to create films frame-by-frame. It dates back to the late 19th century and is best-known nowadays through the Wallace and Gromit or Chicken Run films by British studio Aardman.
"The names that are important in stop-motion are all over 50 years old," del Toro told reporters in Paris at the Gobelins film school in southeast Paris.
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