Tim Burton

Tim burton was born on the 25th of August 1958 in Burbank California. He is a writer, film producer and director. He is most famous for “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. Tim burton has always been interested in stop motion even before he was a teenager he would make stop films in his back garden. As a student Tim burton wasn't very well behaved his teachers said he was only interested in painting drawing and watching films suggesting burton is a very visual person. Tim burtons animation techniques are very interesting the night before Christmas which Tim Burton wrote and produced took 3 years to film. It included 230 different sets hundreds of different puppets displaying characters feeling and emotion. The film had 24 frames per second. For just 1 minute of completed film it took a whole week. The main characters body has a robot like structure making it easy for the film makers to move different joints of the body. This precision helped the film to gross 50 million dollars, which in 1993 nearly 20 years ago was a lot of money. The impact of Tim Burton’s nightmare before Christmas helped animation become big in the film industry. When tim burton made another stop motion film “James and the giant peach” this renewed interest in stop animation leading the path for the like of chicken run. Tim burtons career has involved many big roles 1 of them being the director of batman and Charlie and the chocolate factory. Tim burtons target audience is dark and quirky themed. I feel tim burton is great although he is not everybody's taste including mine he has still been part of some very big films. He has led for the way for films such as chicken run.