ANIMATRONICS
The Core Crew’s animatronics team is headed by CCFx founder,
Paul Pistore.
Paul started working with animatronics professionally, on Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, as a penguin puppeteer and technician.
He was trained on the job, by the heads of Stan Winston’s amazing animatronics team.
Paul has worked with legends like Stan Winston, Rick Baker and the incredible team at (ADI), to name a few.
With credits like Alien Resurrection, Men in Black 2, My Favorite Martian, The Last Samurai and many others, Paul and his Crew are ready to bring Hollywood level creativity to life for your production.


ARCHANGEL
ANIMATRONIC ANGEL WINGS
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/ryeOUR9V9ik
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"Archangel" was an experimental film, written and Directed by Sandy Collora as a companion piece to "The Host of Seraphim" by the band Dead Can Dance.
Starting with Angel wings, originally built for the Kevin Smith movie "Dogma" and Originally built by Krell Wonders/VGP, Sandy's brief was that they needed to "look like they'd been in battle".
Paul redesigned the structural shape, reworked all of the mechanics and completely removed and replaced all of the feathers, to fit the look of the film. The wings were fully articulated to fold, extend, flap and had further feather movement, also designed by Paul.





