

RICK: It was really the development through all of that period that we came upon the concept of doing The Nightmare Before Christmas as a half-hour TV special. of a little boy who thinks that he's Vincent Price. RICK: Really was a product of the experimentation we'd done on a bunch of different little projects at Disney.Īnother project that Tim and I worked on together was an experiment with stop-motion animation for which, uh, I took Tim's designs and created puppets in three-dimensional sets.

The textures became such an important part of creating a three-dimensional look of Tim's own kinda graphic style, - gives you that sense of a 2D, 3D effect. and there's just an inherent quality to that that I find superior to a CG-created environment. RICK: Just the way we were approaching our sets, you can see how light is raking across texture. RICK: Oh, it's so much fun to see this.ĭAN: When was the last time you saw this? This actually lives in the Disney Archives Rick's lent his artistic talent to dozens of classic movies, including The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and Captain America: The First Avenger, in addition to almost every Tim Burton film. because these historic artifacts make you feel like you're a part of the story.ĭAN: My investigation begins with a visit to production and special effects house Fonco Studios.ĭAN: I'm here to see an iconic set-piece.Īnd joining me is one of the film's visionaries, Rick Heinrichs. Now, I am setting out to learn more about the props from the Disney movies that I love. I'm Dan Lanigan, and I've spent my entire life collecting artifacts from my favorite films. I've been researching and collecting these items for years, but I'm still eager to make new discoveries and get the inside scoop from the people who put so much passion and creativity into them.ĭAN: In a movie, every detail, no matter how small, is designed to tell you something.
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What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere.ĭAN: The music, characters, and story all came together to make Disney's first stop-motion feature film a timeless classic.Īnd what's so incredible is how it was made.Ĭharacters and sets had to be inventively designed, allowing this 1991 movie to push the medium to new heights.įrom a skeletal Santa puppet to an iconic hill, every object from this film has humor, emotion, and a unique twist. DAN: When I first saw Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, it blew my mind.
