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.
TRANSFORMERS
COSTUMES
Paul's job at Universal Studios Singapore was to set up and run the Costume Tech
(C-Tech) department, which involved repairing, upgrading and maintaining characters such as the Velociraptors, Shrek and other tech-heavy characters.
Arguably the most technological characters were the Transformers, which created a host of challenges and required skills well beyond those of working with ordinary costumes, including mechanical joints, carbon fibre and fibreglass parts and electronics. Paul's team, the beginnings of the Core Crew were responsible for keeping things going day after day.
