Guillermo Del Toro Talks Life Obsession With Animation; Love Of Stop-Motion & Advises Aspiring Animators To Channel Inner Monster – Annecy
deadline.comGuillermo del Toro was given a rock star welcome at the Annecy International Animation Festival on Tuesday as he took to the stage to discuss his life long obsession with animation.
The Oscar-winning The Shape Of Water filmmaker and producer is at the French lakeside festival this year as one of the figureheads of special a focus on Mexican animation, alongside The Book Of Life director Jorge R.
Gutierrez, producer Sofia Alexander (Onyx Equinox) and Guadalajara Festival head Estrella Araiza Having recounted his early beginnings in the genre using his father’s Super 8, del Toro said he always thought he would work mainly in animation but instead got caught in live action for close to a decade, on TV show Hora Marcada and the film Cronos and breakthrough classics such as The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. “Life had other plans and I didn’t come back to animation formerly until I started working with Dreamworks, supervising on films like Puss In Bootsand Rise Of The Guardians,” he recalled.
Fresh from his experiences on 2023 Oscar and Bafta-winning hit Pinocchio, del Toro professed his love of stop-motion animation. “Stop-motion in my opinion is the most beautiful form of animation because it’s the most intimate.
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