How 'Perfect' Should It Be?

A behind-the-scenes shot from I Am FrankeldaWelcome! It’s a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s the slate:1. Thinking about the “flaws” of stop motion.2. Animation newsbits.3. The last word.Now, let’s go!1. The human elementThis week, there was good news in the animation world. Netflix put up the trailer for I Am Frankelda, due on the platform next month. And, on social media, a lot of people responded. If you’ve been with us for a while, you may know that I Am Frankelda is Mexico’s first stop-motion feature, that Guillermo del Toro took part in the production and that it succeeded in Mexican theaters last year. It’s the work of Cinema Fantasma in Mexico City, and it “might be one of the cheapest stop-motion features of all history,” according to co-director Arturo Ambriz.1Del Toro posted that Frankelda is the result of “tight resources and endless effort and imagination.” He added, in a viral follow-up, “Made by humans for humans.”There’s no getting…