Priority has been given to articles in which PES is actually interviewed and/or quoted.

 

Glimmer Blog 2024 "Go Inside the Mind of PES: The Stop Motion Animator Making Ordinary Objects Extraordinary"

YouTube Blog 2023 "Frame by frame: celebrating stop motion animation with a master of the craft"

Slash Film 2022 "How An Under Two Minute Film Ended Up With An Oscar Nomination"

shots 2019 "PES: The Way I See It"

1985 Magazine "A Fairly Long Interview With the Director of the Shortest Film Ever Nominated for an Academy Award"

It's Nice That "PES creates an epic scale, long exposure stop-motion film for Honda"

Fast Company "PES Shows How He Made His Eye-Popping New Stop-Motion Film 'Submarine Sandwich'"

WIRED "Meet PES, The Stop-Motion Genius Who Turns Grenades into Fresh Guacamole" 

Vice "PES Deconstructs His New Stop-Motion Masterpiece 'Submarine Sandwich'"

Reddit AMA 2015

Thought Catalog "How to Make a 95-Second Oscar-Nominated Film: Interview with PES"

Little Black Book "PES and RPS on Honda's Journey Through Paper"

Animation World Network "PES Talks 'Fresh Guacamole'"

Image Chaser "PES on Stop-Motion & Making Of 'Submarine Sandwich'"

Los Angeles Times "Ready For The Big Dip" (paper edition)

The New York Times "Animation Basks in Oscar Spotlight"

Esquire "Meet the Mind Behind These Awe-Inspiring Stop-Motion Videos"

Virginia Magazine "Stop-Motion Master"

Animation Magazine "Indie Animator PES"

Motionographer "PES:The Deep"

Animation World Network "PES Talks 'Submarine Sandwich' and the Joys of Crowdfunding"

Go Film Magazine Oscars feature on PES  View Full Interview PDF

Salon "PES: I worked on this for years"

1.4 Magazine (UK) "PES Dices with Magic"

The New York Times  "The Real Cartoon Network" (paper edition)

Deadline Hollywood: "Michael Eisner's Tornante Behind Feature Adaptation of 'Garbage Pail Kids'"

TIME Magazine "The Top Ten of Everything 2008"

Make Magazine "Making Spaghetti Without Water" (by PES)

eGuiders "Pure Imagination: An Interview with PES"

Paste Magazine "Glittering Delight: Animation Auteur discusses his Objects of Affection"

Further Reading

Gasek, Tom. ''Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion: The Guide to Non-Traditional Animation Techniques.'' Focal Press, 2011. ISBN 0240817281 Buy on Amazon

Levy, David B. ''Directing Animation.'' Allworth Press, 2010. ISBN 1581157460 View Full Chapter PDF  

Robinson, Chris. "PES Play."  In ''Animators Unearthed: A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation.'' Bloomsbury Academic, 2010, pp. 57-70. ISBN 0826429564 View Full Chapter PDF

Wells, Paul, Johnny Hardstaff and Darryl Clifton. ''Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image.'' Fairchild Books, 2008. ISBN 2940373698  View Full Chapter PDF