Present Animators (Tim Burton)

Tim Burton - Who is he?

Burton is known for being a director as well as producer. The success of his short film 'Stalk of the Celery Monster' grabbed the attention of Walt Disney Productions animation studio, who eventually offered him the apprenticeship. With this he worked on films such as, The Fox and the Hound and Tron. However, with this he actually chose to work alone on solo projects rather than with Disney as his choice of style had clashed with them. 

One of Burton's first films were a 6 minute stop motion which was called 'Vincent' and also one of his latest films was a remake of his 1984 short film which was known as 'Frankenweenie' and was released in 2012 around October. The film in 1984 was said to be somewhat too quirky as well as scary for the mainstream appeal. However, now that it has been released 28 years later after the first film had been released, this generally shows the huge development of stop motion animation and within this context, earlier Disney didn't allow the appeal to be 'scary and or quirky' within their films. However, during this day and age films around that appeal are allowed to be released. 

 

The film 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', which was also written and produced by Tim Burton. The film has been said to have helped to generate a whole new meaning to generating new interests within stop motion animation. The film was actually in production for around 3 years and due to the amount of time in which it took to film the stop motion. I feel that it was worth the production lasting 3 years at it was a creative piece of stop-motion which was an excellent film. 



Within the film Mars Attack, Tim used puppets which led to the film looking more realistic, also hundreds of face models were produced with different expressions which would be used in different situations. Tim may have been influenced by the animator, George Pal who actually used this technique within the 1940s TV series.