“Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a trailblazing stop-motion studio which will be built at France’s prestigious Gobelins school, whose famous alumni includes “Despicable Me” director Pierre Buffin.

On Friday, the pair told a select group of journalists at the Gobelins school in Paris that the project will give the next generation of animation artists the opportunity to learn, collaborate, innovate and push the boundaries of stop-motion craft.

More than a just a training center, the stop motion studio is co-founded by del Toro and Netflix, and is being conceived as a living laboratory of experimentation and research.

The project is also a tribute to the legacy of the late Mark Gustafson, whose worked inspired del Toro, cr

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