going by whats on Phil's Youtube channel, the feature is done but not yet available to see (or purchase) as a BluRay until after the festival screenings.
I watched a video with Phil Tippett recently and it seems like to me that's he's kinda done doing aliens and robots, Just wants to move on doing other stuff with his skills.
I've seen a lot of animatronics to know how they are made. The last doc film that used animatronics, that I saw was the remake for Dark Crystal. I will watch this for posterity reasons..
I've watched some of this. Haven't finished it yet. It's got some wicked cool visuals. I really enjoy the stop-motion stuff, but when the live human characters come in it kind of ruins the effect.