Along with Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro expressed his love of animated cinema

The Oscar-winning director of The shape of the water will deliver this feature film at the end of 2022, which he has been thinking about for more than 15 years and he went on to defend personally at the festival.

In the expected photos, a Gepetto with a thick white beard wakes up, climbs into his studio and discovers for the first time that Pinocchio has spoken and lived.

Stop-motion animation, also called stop-motion animation, is one of the oldest methods in cinema. It consists of taking a step-by-step picture of inanimate objects.

In the puree from Pinocchio presented on Wednesday, the images admire their fluidity and attention to detail, in relatively dark environments.

Animation is not a fucking genre, it is cinema in its own rightlaunched the Mexican director in Annecy.

He added like make a film that is both entertaining and moving, pushing the boundaries of animationsa enlivening silence and in avoiding pantomime nonsense.

Let the characters make mistakes, get a headache, get a knee pain, look at their agehe added, suggesting that Pinocchio and the story of fatherhood behind it one of the most important in his life.

A Kid Cudi series

In other projects, the platform was also showcased Entergalactic, based on rapper Kid Cudi’s upcoming album. This series, which will air on Sept. 30, follows the romance story of two actors against the backdrop of rap and New York nights.

These announcements are a new sign of the importance of animation – young, and increasingly adult – in competition between major platforms.

In addition to Disney, both the traditional studio and streaming giant, which has a strong presence at the Annecy Festival, the Apple TV+ platform has also made headlines in Swerteanimated film starring Simon Pegg, Jane Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg to be released on August 5th.