“An eerie world of imagination comes to life before our eyes”
The Making of Tim Burtons the Nightmare before Christmas
The Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favourite Disney films of all time, bringing stop motion animation into the limelight.
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It took 100 artists and technicians, 13 animators, over 100 camera operators, puppet makers, set builders and prop makers 3 years from start to finish to produce Tim Burton’s vision. Using 19 sound stages, 230 sets and hundreds of individual puppets.
Through the hard work of all these people the film won Best Fantasy Film from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA in 1994.
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The basis of the film came from Tim Burton’s original poem and artwork entitled The Nightmare Before Christmas. Using the artwork, the art department created characters, sets and locations that coincided with Tim’s original drawings. Tim Burton was head of the visual team so in one sense could take on the title Production Designer, though he never did.
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This film, like many, relied heavily on the use of storyboards in the Pre-production stage to save time and money by planning out the whole film before any filming began. Joseph Ranft was the Storyboard Supervisor and with his storyboarding team they drew scene after scene of storyboards, many scenes containing several shots, until they had the full film, accompanied by voice over’s and music. This method of planning a film before shooting allows the director to see his vision before any filming begins and allows any problems to be solved quickly saving hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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The look of the film was taken from Tim’s original sketches- the entire set was covered in plaster and then etched into, creating cross hatching and texture so it looked like a living illustration.
Tim had a strong emphasis on colour and told the set designers that the only colours they could use in their colour pallet for Halloween Town were black, white and orange. This emphasis on narrow colour choices created the scary look of the town which fits perfectly with the overall theme.
Post-production techniques were also used to add snow, smoke, shadows, fire, electric bolts and floating ghosts.
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