Henry Selick by Andrew H
Henry Selick is a famous stop-motion animation director. He is the real director of A Nightmare Before Christmas. He has directed a few other films including the new film Coraline which is the first 3-D stop-motion animation ever. Henry Selick has also worked with Disney to produce the classic The Fox and the Hound. He was born on November 30, 1952 in New Jersey where he first felll in love with the art when he saw the film The Adentures of Prince Achmed.
I love the style of Henry’s movies. They are all very fun and creative. You can tell by the quality of his films that he has been interested in stop-motion animation for quite a while as demonstrated by this quote:
“I didn’t come into animation until I was already in college. I was in the arts, doing lots and lots of drawings, painting, sculpture and music – I loved all these things and wanted to find a way to combine them. Then I happened to see a short film that combined a couple of different styles of animation and it had all the things that I was interested in. It took a while for me to settle on stop-motion but even in my sculpture days, I was doing figures that had joints that I could repose – people would be in a room looking at other things and I would carefully make slight adjustments to see if they noticed.”
Henry Selick is a very creative person who, even at the age of 57, still goes into his office and plays electric guitar to relieve stress.
A Link to the opening of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Sources:Wikipedia, Movieretriever.com
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