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Tim Burton
Tim Burton
• American film director, film producer,
writer and artist
• Famous for dark, quirky themed movies
such as Beetlejuice, Edward
Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before
Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and
Alice in Wonderland
• Tim Burton often uses his close friend
Johnny Depp in most of his Blockbuster
movies
• Before Burton started directing movies, he was
an animator for Disney. He was any good at it
and that literally drove him mad. He was
supposed to draw foxes in a certain way, but
they all turned out, as Tim elegantly put it,
looking like roadkill.
• Most of his movies are based around a
character that doesn't quite fit in with the rest of
the world, because Tim himself grew up feeling
like an outcast. This is most noticeable in
Edward Scissorhands.
Building Characters
• Burton and his designers start
by creating small sculptures of
the characters
• He brings the characters to life
using stop-motion animation
• The object is moved in small
increments between individually
photographed frames, creating
the illusion of movement when
the series of frames is played as
a continuous sequence.