Mackinnon and Saunders

I was lucky enough to meet these guys at the bradford animation festival in 2013, it was amazing to find out there production company had created the puppets and sets for some of my favourite feature length stop motion films. they create work for short films, commercials, television and feature films. 

They have worked with tim burton on the corpse bride and Franken Weeny, making specialised puppets for each of the movies to allow the characters to stay so think and lean like Tim wanted, along with Wes Andersons Fantastic Mr. Fox models. When i was in Prague over easter i went to a time burton exhibition with his past works, drawings he had done, story boards, along with his first book he illustrated and sent to disney for feed back. When i saw the puppets i was able to look closely at them and able to appreciate there work even more, especially how fiddly and complex the joints were. 

http://www.mackinnonandsaunders.com/what-we-do/puppets/