35K views · 1.2K reactions | Mouse Hunt - The animatronic 'Catzilla' puppet at Stan Winston Studio. For director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 film, MouseHunt, Stan Winston Studio built an oversized animatronic cat - dubbed ‘Catzilla’ - which had radio control functions and a telemetry controller. Six puppeteers operated the mouse and cat puppets on sets that were scaled up to make the animals appear the appropriate size. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts | Facebook

For director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 film, #MouseHunt, Stan Winston Studio built an oversized animatronic cat - dubbed ‘Catzilla’ - which had radio control functions and a telemetry controller. Six puppeteers operated the mouse and cat puppets on sets that were scaled up to make the animals appear the appropriate size. These mouse and cat performances not only had to be realistic and match the behavior of their real counterparts, but they also had to be comedic in nature. This was no small task, a