Who's your FAVORITE character from Joe Dante's SMALL SOLDIERS? One of the early aesthetic issues for Stan Winston and his crew was determining whether the Commandos and Gorgonites should look and move like plastic action figures or like real, organic characters. “The question was,” said Winston, “do we design the same limitations we saw in real action figures into our characters? Or do we go beyond those limitations to give them more life? We decided that to create really great performances, we

Small Soldiers: rehearsals with the animatronic Freakenstein puppet at Stan Winston Studio for Joe Dante's film from 1998, testing the walking Gorgonite rig before filming. See the entire creation process of the incredible toy characters for the film inside our behind the scenes blog: bit.ly/SmallSoldiersBtsFB | Stan Winston School of Character Arts