Belfast has a special connection to Oscar-tipped movie Pinocchio
The new Pinocchio movie from director Guillermo del Toro has been hotly tipped for success at the Oscars but it has emerged the film has a special connection to Northern Ireland.
When animation studio Mackinnon and Saunders, which created the models for the film, needed help making the Pinocchio puppet it got in touch with Laser Prototype Europe Ltd.The firm's director Campbell Evans said: "They needed somebody to be able to make the body, the arms and the legs and so on". "We did the back plate, we did the front breast plate and we did all the legs and joints and so on which are all interconnected.
"They'd send us the design and then we'd look at it and add supporting material. That gets sliced into very thin layers and then that gets sent to the machine where a laser will essentially weld it layer by layer," senior engineer Nelson McKay said.
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