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.
MASCOTS
We have many years of experience not only building mascots and other large format costumes, but also working with them and maintaining them day to day in multiple theme parks, as well as on touring shows and theatrical productions. This gives us the experience to know what it takes to make them work, and stay functioning under the rigors of daily use.
With extensive experience at Universal Studios theme parks in both the US and Singapore, we know the difference between "durable" and "theme park durable" and are able to bring that knowledge to the table in every Mascot build. This way, our mascot costumes not only look amazing, but are also built to last, which ultimately saves our clients money on downtime, costly repairs, and replacements.