Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said Friday he was teaming up with a Paris film school and Netflix to launch a training studio to help old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques survive.

Stop motion is the oldest form of animation, involving manipulating real-life models to create films frame-by-frame.

It dates back to the late 19th century and is best-known nowadays through the “Wallace and Gromit” or “Chicken Run” films by British studio Aardman.

“The names that are important in stop-motion are all over 50 years old,” del Toro told reporters in Paris at the Gobelins film school in southeast Paris.

“Stop-motion is perpetually on the brink of extinction. And it is perpetually preserved by slightly crazy people. It’s a tiny cult with very devoted individuals,” joked the filmmak

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