Tim Burton

I looked at different stop frane animation artists and I found Tim Burton as a very inspiring person, who is an American director and film producer. He is well known for creating animation like ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ and ‘Vincent’ where he used the stop frame animation through the whole video. However, he also produced movies like ‘Sleepy Hollow or ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, where he often worked with Johnny Depp. Burton’s style is usually very dark, dramatic, scary, where the shapes of the object are usually very exaggerated. I thought that looking at his stule might be helpful when producing our final project, because he created gothic style animation being influenced by art nouveau. However most of his film are either dark or colourful, but sometimes contain both including extremely dark atmosphere in buildings and set design.

 Vincent

In this stop frame animation Tim Burton created very dark, scary and exaggerated curved shapes with sharp edges. The use of black and white makes the animation even more successful . 

Alice in Wonderland

In Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton shows a combination of dark colours and colourful background with the same Gothic style with many abstract shapes. Those factors make the film unique and interesting. 

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The style of this animation is very similar to 'Vincent' animation, because of the use of lines, shapes and shadows, however the use of the colours is more similar to 'Alice in Wonderland'.

I found Tim Burton's style very interesting, unique and influential , therefore I wanted to use a similar technique in our video. However, I wanted over final project to be more optimistic and positive, so I would rather use warmer colours. What I really liked about his work is the use of shapes and way he makes the lines curved to make the film successful.