TIM BURTON AND HENRY SELICK

By Matthew Webb, Kieran Chester and Ben Kippen

TIM BURTON

Born in 1958 in California. Burton would make short films in his

backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion

animation techniques, filmed without sound.

Examples of his work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ax6ZrcUx4

Nightmare before Christmas

James and the giant peach

Mars Attacks

Sleepy Hollow however only on one scene is stop motion is

used.

HENRY SELICK

Henry Selick, born November 30, 1952 is an

American stop motion director, producer and

writer who is best known for directing The

Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the

Giant Peach and Coraline.

HOW THEY WERE MADE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXKoNOMj0

Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an

animation technique to make a physically

manipulated object appear to move on its own. The

object is moved in small increments between

individually photographed frames, creating the

illusion of movement

STYLE AND IDEAS

Tim Burton is known for his dark gothic style.

He was a big fan of Vincent Price and Edward Gorey, and the cartoony

look probably comes from working for Disney in his early days.

Several of his films are based on drawings he made as a kid

Despite having a typical suburban upbringing in his Burbank,

California home, young Tim Burton spent a lot of his time crafting very

twisted and imaginative drawings. Some of these childhood drawings

would serve as the inspiration for some of his most memorable

characters and films such as Edward Scissorhands and Jack