The stop-motion look, which Tim Burton insisted upon using for Nightmare Before Christmas, was inspired by the Rankin-Bass holiday specials. But at some point I realized they had no intention of using any of it." It was like weird characters, weird props, weird furniture, just sitting in a room doing whatever I wanted. "They said, 'We're doing this movie, The Black Cauldron', so I just sat in a room for a year and came up with ideas and stuff, just drew any idea I wanted to, and it was great. "They were very nice to me," Burton later said. They worked as concept artists for the fantasy animated feature The Black Cauldron (1985), where it was felt that Burton's gothic sensibilities might be better utilized. Mine looked like roadkills," Burton remembered.īurton found himself assigned to drawing the distance shots where his lack of ability in the approved "Disney-style" of cute drawing would be less noticeable.īurton became visibly depressed at work, demonstrating erratic behavior including sleeping in a closet, and he was teamed with another new animator Andreas Deja in the hopes that Deja might be able to make Burton's unusual sketchy, angular artwork more "Disney-esque" for film. "I couldn't draw those four-legged Disney foxes. He was teamed with veteran animator Glen Keane to work on the animated feature The Fox and the Hound (1981). They offered him a job at the Disney Studios. Looking for potential new talent with new ideas, Disney always reviewed the students' final projects and liked Burton's short. Maxwell Payne and his assistant titled Stalk of the Celery Monster. His final class project in 1979 was a short student animated film about a creepy dentist named Dr. I hated school."Įncouraged by his high school art teacher and wanting a career for which he wouldn't need too much more schooling, Burton got an artistic scholarship to attend California Institute of the Arts in 1976 where he studied animation. "They told me the standard stuff about going to school. "I came when I was 13, just to visit and ask what I would have to do to work here," Burton recalled. When I watch it now, after having had it in me for so long…I love it."īorn in Burbank on August 25, 1958, Timothy William Burton grew up near the Disney Studios and for him drawing was a sanctuary from his perceived horrors of everyday life and school. There are many Disney anniversaries this year, including the 25 th of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.īurton said, "This film has all the elements I wanted for it: the holidays (I love both Halloween and Christmas), beautiful but misunderstood characters, drama, sadness, optimism.
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