George Pal

George Pal was born in 1908 in Hungary. He was an animator and film produced in the genre of science fiction and fantasy. He created the Puppetoons series in the 1940s which were a huge success. He won an Academy Award for the "Development of a novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons".

Pal created a series of animated puppet films called Puppetoons  in the 1940s. He created different puppets which consisted of various limbs and heads that were carved using wood. This created the illusion that the puppets had expression and movement within the structures. George Pal's technique of creating various heads with expressions has inspired  many film makers today such as Aardman where they used different expression and faces to create some of their characters for their films.

In 1940, Pal emigrated and worked for Paramount Pictures. He was mostly influences by films as well as film directors in the 1920s that worked with science fiction and/or fantasy. The audiences for his films are mostly children and maybe adults, depending on the film and what rating it had. I don't think George Pal's technique could be improved as there wasn't much wrong with it apart from the fact that it was quite time consuming to make several different heads with different expressions on it. His technique has inspired film makers today who use the same technique such as Tim Burton and Aardman.