(Annecy) The American online video giant Netflix unveiled Wednesday at the Annecy Festival the very first images of some of its most anticipated projects in terms of animation, including the Pinocchio in frame-by-frame animation by Guillermo del Toro.
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The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water or Pan’s Labyrinth will deliver this feature film at the end of 2022, which he has been thinking about for more than 15 years and which he came to defend in person at the International Animation Film Festival.
On the first projected images, a Gepetto with a thick white beard wakes up, climbs to his studio, and discovers for the first time that Pinocchio speaks and has come to life.
The sets and images in frame-by-frame animation, one of the oldest cinema techniques which consists in taking successive photos of inanimate objects, mark in the extract presented by their fluidity and attention to detail, in a rather dark atmosphere.
“Animation is not a fucking genre” cinematographic, launched the Mexican director in Annecy: “It’s cinema” in its own right.
He added that he wanted to “make a film that is both entertaining and moving, which pushes the limits of animation”, by “animating the silence” and “avoiding the bullshit of pantomimes”.
“Let the characters make mistakes, have headaches, hurt their knees, look their age,” he added, noting that Pinocchio and the story of fatherhood behind it was “one of the most important of his life “.
Among other projects, the platform also presented Entergalacticby rapper Kid Cudi, retracing the love story of two artists against a backdrop of rap and New York nights.
These announcements are a new sign of the importance of animation, youth and increasingly adult, in the competition between major platforms.
In addition to Disney, both a traditional studio and a streaming giant (via Disney+) with a strong presence at the Annecy Festival, the Apple TV+ platform also made headlines with the first images of Luck (posted August 5).