"Guillermo really wanted it to be a sort of Frankenstein-eqsue creation story." Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio's puppet ...

Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion specialist who won an Oscar this year for his work on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, died Thursday. He was 63. Del Toro announced the news Friday on social media ...

Mark Gustafson, a principal figure in the stop-motion animation art form and Oscar-winning co-director of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, has died at 64 after suffering a heart attack.

No longer. The success of “Pinocchio” on the awards circuit — it also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA — is helping spur a revival in stop motion, and Portland stands to reap the benefits.

The exhibit “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opened June 10 at the Portland Art Museum. This is an exhibition dedicated to the first stop-motion animation film created by del Toro.

Guillermo del Toro ’s Pinocchio is the second Pinocchio movie of the year. But, while Robert Zemeckis and Disney remade its animated adaptation in live action, del Toro returned to the original ...

CADYVILLE — In the movie, it’s a few seconds; for Corey Lunn, it was two weeks. Lunn, 47, a native of Cadyville, worked as an artist for the Oscar-winning 2022 Guillermo del Toro stop-motion ...