CONTEMPORARY

ANIMATORS
By Zara Lane
TIM BURTON
Tim Burton animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGACeWVdFqo
Tim Burton talking about animation:
http://minadream.com/timburton/Animation.htm



Tim Burtons first stop motion animation was called "Stalk of the Celery
Monster, which he created in 1979. The film attracted the attention of
Walt Disney Productions' animation department, which offered Burton
an animator's apprenticeship at the studio. He worked as an animator,
storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the
Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron. However, Burton's personal
style clashed with Disney's standards.

The Nightmare Before Christmas was made in 1993, and is another
stop motion. The musical fantasy film was directed by Henry Selick
and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack
Skellington, from "Halloween Town, who opens a portal to "Christmas
Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday.
TIM BURTON
Corpse Bride was directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton in 2005. The
plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp led an
all-star cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voiced
Emily, the title character. Corpse Bride is the third stop-motion feature film
produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films,
The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, were
directed by Henry Selick)
James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the
1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a
combination of live action and stop-motion animation. The film begins with normal live-action for the first 20
minutes, but becomes stop-motion animation after James enters the peach, and then live-action when James
enters New York City, New York (although the mutated insect characters remained in stop-motion). Selick had
originally planned for James to be a real actor through the entire film, then later considered doing the whole film in
stop-motion, but ultimately settled on doing entirely live-action and entirely stop-motion sequences because of costs
AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as
Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a
British animation studio based in Bristol,
United Kingdom. The studio is known for films
made using stop-motion clay animation
techniques, particularly those featuring
plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. It
entered the computer animation market with
Flushed Away (2006).
AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
In December 1997, Aardman and DreamWorks (later DreamWorks
Animation) announced that their companies were teaming up to co-finance
and distribute Chicken Run, Aardman's first feature film, which had already
been in pre-production for a year. On 27 October 1999, Aardman and
DreamWorks signed a $250 million deal to make an additional four films in
an estimated next 12 years.
On 23 June 2000, Chicken Run was released to a great critical and financial
success. In 2005, after ten years of absence, Wallace and Gromit returned in
Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Next year followed Flushed Away, Aardman's first computer-animated
feature.
AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
Later that year a serious fire at a storage facility used by Aardman and other
Bristol based companies destroyed over 30 years of awards collected by the
company
On the 10
th
October 2005, Aardman Animations went up in flames. Inside were
models from as far back as Morph and all the way through to Chicken Run,
including Wallace and Gromit and Creature Comforts. The building also
contained many original sets and storyboards.