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Puppets hundreds of years ago were the spectacle of the day. “Quite a few people are tired of computer graphics and stop motion is much closer to reality in terms of what you’re dealing with…a real object and there’s real lights. “It’s gotten a renaissance, kind of a grassroots, I guess you would call it,” he said. Tippett’s thrilled about the thriving state of stop-motion, with Laika and ShadowMachine up in Portland, Aardman’s continued success in the U.K., Wes Anderson’s occasional indie forays, and del Toro’s Oscar-winning debut with his innovative “Pinocchio.” “There must’ve been close to a dozen things they peppered around the set.” “I sent them close to everything,” he said. An entire puppet fabrication team worked on the episode and has been submitted for Emmy consideration along with Tippett. Tippett was given free artistic reign for the episode and provided a monster mash from “Mad God” along with parts of articulated skeletons and other ghoulish creatures, including a creepy Cerberus, a guy with a red light on his head, and a head bursting out of an animal.

We have a lot of similar stories about making things and the damage that one incurs psychologically when you rise to that level or lower yourself to that level of intensity.” We spent a good hour over lunch chatting about everything.

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