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.
ROTTWEILER
ANIMATRONICS | PUPPETRY
In the near future, a prisoner named Dante (William Miller) escapes from jail after having been arrested for illegally entering Spain. Forced to kill a prison guard, he is hunted down by the prison's dog, a monstrous, Rottweiler police dog that sadistic prison warden Kufard, played by Spanish horror icon, Paul Naschy.
CCFx founder, Paul Pistore built animatronics for this near-future sci fi horror film. Directed by the legendary Brian Yuzna, the movie was very loosely based on Alberto Vázquez Figueroa's book "El Perro",
As Lead Puppeteer on the film, his animatronic Rottweiler(s) killed 5 people, 2 dogs and a chicken (on-screen of course) in a terrifying canine bloodbath.