Sergio Valdivia de la Torre

Stop Motion Animator | Mexico

He is a Mexican stop motion artist/animator from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His first jobs before getting into animation were working at a car detailing shop and as a bagger at a supermarket. While studying animation, he worked as an animation teacher for children, as well as a sculptor and animation assistant on the feature film Inzomnia (directed by Luis Téllez). He collaborated on several small projects as a puppet assistant, rigger assistant, and animation assistant. He eventually graduated after animating almost the entire short film Merodeador de Historias (directed by Aranza Engle and Eduardo Zepeda, 2018). He spent the following years animating short films such as A la Cabeza (directed by Andrea Santiago, 2020), La Casa de la Memoria (directed by Sofia Rosales Arreola, 2020), Tío (directed by Juan Median, 2021), and Humo (directed by Rita Basulto, 2023).

He was selected as one of the stop motion animators to work on Pinocchio (directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, 2022) for the Black Rabbits sequence created at Taller del Chucho in Guadalajara. He was later invited to join the international team of animators on the main unit at Shadow Machine studio in Portland, where he worked on part of the Training Camp sequence. He briefly served as a guest animator on Soy Frankelda, 2025. He was selected as one of Variety's/Nickelodeon's 10 Animators to Watch, Class of 2022. His most recent collaboration was working as a stop motion animator at Laika on its latest feature film, Wildwood. He is now working on a stop motion animated feature film back at Taller del Chucho.