Even taking it as a given that Disney's animated classics will all receive live-action makeovers eventually, "Pinocchio" feels like an unnecessary exercise -- a movie so flat that it never sparks to ...

"It's the perfect way to tell the story" of Pinocchio, the Oscar winner told IndieWire. For Guillermo del Toro, it wasn’t a question of why stop-motion fit his new version of “Pinocchio,” but why it ...

In the first version, Pinocchio actually kills Jiminy Cricket, then just called “the Talking Cricket,” by throwing a hammer at him. The puppet is selfish, lazy, and cruel. He gets hanged. He nearly ...

These are dire times for any sort of animation that doesn’t involve computers. Such old-fangled crafts as cel and puppet animation, which require thousands of meticulously detailed drawings or ...

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...

Puppet Parade is an interactive installation that allows children (and adults) to use their arms to control larger than life creatures projected on a wall in front of them. The project was created by ...