GUILLERMO DEL TORO HAS BEEN preparing to make a stop-motion animation his whole life. “I’ve been doing it since I was a kid,” he says, noting that his earliest shorts were Super 8 claymation. Later, before he made his 1993 debut Cronos, he was planning a stop-motion feature, until his workshop was burgled.
“After three years of sculpting 120 puppets and sets, they destroyed it all on the first week of filmmaking. And I said, ‘Live action it is for me!’” Now the