Pinocchio director Guillermo del Toro said that he considers animators just as important as voice actors to the film, a retelling of the fairy tale about a wooden puppet that wants to be a real boy.

Del Toro shared his stance in a tweet, writing that the film "credit[s] the animators right up front alongside the cast members," and adding that the puppets and puppets creative supervisor Georgina Hayns will be present on the press tour "to showcase the artistry that allows that performance."

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Del Toro recently said that he hopes the stop-motion animation of Pinocchio has a revolutionary effect. He explained that he and co-director Mark Gustafson "wanted to return the controls of animation to the animators, and treat [the animators] as actors" and resist the "codification of animation in a ‘cool’ language that is almost like emojis."

The director showed off Pinocchio's puppets prior to the film's release, explaining that it was a painstaking but worthwhile endeavor. He called the effort "An artisanal, beautiful exercise in carving, painting [and] sculpting," adding that "it had the sophisticational movement that research on rigs and puppetry making have taken us to."

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It seems that del Toro's efforts paid off, as Pinocchio, which premiered on Oct. 15 at the London Film Festival, opened to largely positive reviews. One reviewer wrote, "This is a 'Pinocchio' that credits its young audience with eminently grownup taste and intelligence" while another praised the film for being "a soulful stop-motion masterpiece."

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The critical success of Pinocchio may get audiences even more excited for del Toro's next project: an anthology series called Cabinet of Curiosities, which the director says is an effort to "showcase the realities existing outside of our normal world: the anomalies and curiosities." Each episode, which del Toro said "has a whole world," is helmed by a different director. The filmmakers attached to the project include Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Keith Thomas (Firestarter), Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) and more.

While little else is known about the project, Netflix has released the names of the episodes, which include "Dreams In The Witch House," "Graveyard Rats," "Lot 36," "Pickman's Model," "The Autopsy," "The Murmuring," "The Outside," and "The Viewing." The first two episodes of the show are set to come out on Oct. 25, with two new installments dropping every day through Oct. 28.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio hits select theaters in November, and Netflix on Dec. 9.

Source: Twitter