![]() The studio had been in the doldrums since then and was looking for a change. Walt Disney had died in 1967, making The Jungle Book his last film. The Disney Company was willing to fund such experiments because they were desperate for a new sense of direction. However, his conceptual work got the attention of Disney producer Julie Hickson and Studio Vice-President Tom Wilhite gave him $60,000 to produce an animated film based on a children's story that Burton had already written. Burton had been working as a conceptual artist on The Black Cauldron (1985), but none of his ideas were used in the final film. VINCENTīurton began his commercial 3-D animation career with Vincent, a five-minute combination of stop-motion and 2-D animation that he made with Rich Heinrichs when both were still Disney employees. And as you get older, you realize that there's an artistry there too, and that's what you're responding to. ![]() I used to love all those Ray Harryhausen movies - Jason and the Argonauts, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad - they were incredible, I loved stop-motion animation as a kid. It's the jerkiest animation you'll ever see. These cavemen had removable legs - one was in the standing position, and the other was in a walking one - and we just changed the legs. It was really bad and it shows you how little you know about animation at the beginning. We made a wolfman movie, and a mad doctor movie, and a little stop-motion film using model cavemen. One of these was a stop-motion animation film, which Burton recalled quite clearly: ![]() His love of Godzilla movies led him to fantasize as a youngster that he would one day be the actor inside the Godzilla suit by the time he was a teenager, he and a handful of friends were making Super 8 movies in Burbank. Kindle eBook: ~$15.Īctually, Tim Burton's life-long love affair with stop-motion animation began when he was a child. Home Reviews Sample Chapter Alison McMahan PurchaseīURTON DOES 3-D: Hollywood's TRANSITION TO CGI © Continuum 2005 The films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood - by Alison McMahan ![]()
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