and for funding he turned to Kickstarter(!)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anomalisa/charlie-kaufmans-anomalisa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401878/
apparently it's gonna be 40 minute stop-motion, and based on a play that Kaufman wrote under a pseudonym ("Francis Fregoli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fregoli_delusion)")
Whoa, I forgot to check up on this to see where it was at. Well good for him, hopefully he can make it happen now!
based on some links from the Google-cached version of the "Starburns Industries" website (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FJA24u5P6rYJ:www.starburnsindustries.com/), looks like it will involve the animation team* behind "Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley%27s_Frankenhole)".
*Moral Orel creator Dino Stamatopoulos (http://www.dahl.com/DINO/) ; MSF examples/behindthescenes here: http://video.adultswim.com/mary-shelleys-frankenhole/behind-the-scenes-of-season-2.html