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.
DIABLO
PUPPETS | PROPS
Built by Paul Pistore for the popular Diablo video game, this suit made appearances at conventions and shows to promote Blizzard Entertainment’s new-at-the-time, game.
The design given to Paul and his small team at Total Fabrication consisted of only the chest, shoulders and head of the demon. The rest had been scrawled by the, then president of Blizzard Ent. In fact, the character hadn't been completed, in the game, when the suit was commissioned.
Paul had to extrapolate the design from what he had and create the whole creature. Ultimately, the Diablo in the game was based on Paul's suit, instead of the other way around. The rest, as they say, is history.
