I could really relate to OMEGA man with charles heston, fave movies, alone. Really responded to german expression, really responded to light and dark, george mielies, old films that really captured a spirit and a feeling of being inside a dreamscape. was strong to me. Use inspiration with Ray Harrausen. The Grinch was a use inspiration for The Nightmere Beofre Christmas Tim wanted to create the grinch in reverse.
I
was a bit lucky as they started new disney program, I got a
scholarship, I was very lucky to get that, and it was all about being
there at the right time. The whole programme started to try and get
people to develop in animation. It was considered the darker days of
animation studio, even though I wasn't good at it, I got
opportunities to draw things for a year, thats when I got the idea
for vincent. At the same time I got the idea and started developing
nightmare before christmas. But Ive been hired and fired by disney 4
different times.
I'm
amazed how drawings freak out adults, I always felt fairy tales were
always frighting stories but children relate to it because it's like
how am I going to deal with something I don't quite understand, all
these weird horrible images that are crucial to child hood.
The
tools in animation have changed but I try and keep things as homemade
as I can, keep the same approach. Giving yourself limitations, I feel
like that really makes it fun. Now with so much technology at your
disposable, knowing that I wanted to keep it has human and tactile as
possible.
Warner brothers saw vincent and franaweeny, I got that job very strangely easily, that was great they saw something right away. They were all made in my 20's. made an unconventional and no point of reference. It was interesting because it made me balance.
Buton repeats certain shapes and symbols to communicate his characters
emotions. For example the faces of his troubled heros are often
geometic shapes. The eyes and faces and bodies of many characters are
composed of circular or organic shapes. Burton often uses circles to
suggest unhappiness. Burton
talks about how trying to make sure the medium he choosed is right
for the film, with The Nightmere Before Christmas, they made the
whole set look like a drawing that came to life and stop motion was
perfect for that. It fitted well with the characters and story line.
Tim Burton has been inspiring me creatively since I saw The Nightmare before Christmas when I was 13, he was defiantly one of my major artist obsessions. The way he made Jack move in the film was incredible, with the way he mixed all these known as bad and scary things into a character that was a “goody” really spoke to me.
"In going through my previous artwork, it really energized me, reconnects you with the world. Looking at who you are, what you've done, what you want to do. By looking back I kind of realised I was obsessed with a dramatic theme. A lot of it has to do with my family upbringing, and how you feel as an adult, and that sort of feeling of isolation, and being inside your own head and mind, I always felt very strongly like that. connection with people that fitted into society. Normal was scary, that indicated something that was terrifying in a way to me and I can't get rid of it. “I never considered my drawings art or artwork, it was allays just the process when thinking of ideas. All these things photographs, writings, sketches are the most important part of any project. Those things are essential for communication” When making nightmare before Christmas, the story boarding was perfecting, they drew every scene over and over again."
"From a young perspective of in transitioning into an adult, I allways felt like Tim was so hoenst about growing up with feelings of being an outcast and isolation and was really the start to focusng on my own style and not trying to draw perfectly and how incorpertating wierdness in art actually can be used as a really possitive thing." He allways had an underline message in his work that was “be true to yourself”
