Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Editors - Ken Schretzmann ACE and Holly Klein

PINOCCHIO editors Ken Schretzmann ACE and Holly Klein each have a background rich with experience in animation.  But while Ken's is in editing CGI-animated features like TOY STORY 3 (2010) and CARS (2006), Holly's earlier work was actually as an animator for TV shows such as BLUES CLUES and WONDER PETS!  Together they took on the roles of Animatic Editor (Ken) and Production Editor (Holly) to help tame the massive challenge of crafting a contemporary stop motion classic.

Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong love of animation and the art of stop motion began when he was a child growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico.  By the age of eight, he had started shooting his own amateur stop motion films using his toys and a Super 8 camera that belonged to his father.  As a teenager, he began teaching Claymation classes and, in the process, came upon an idea that would find its way to fruition four decades later; a cinematic adaptation based on Gris Grimly's design from his 2002 edition of Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.  Co-directed by del Toro and stop motion vet Mark Gustafson (in his feature directorial debut), the film stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton.

Editing Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

In our discussion with Ken and Holly, we talk about:

• Bringing leftovers into work
• Animating in the mistakes
• How you can’t rehearse fighting with a balloon
• Using green screen to buy the animators some time
• Table reads for scratch dialogue

The Credits

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