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Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film-The Art-The Vision
On-screen, Jack Skellington may be the star, but the real masterminds behind the show are the some 140 artists and technicians who spent more than two years bringing Jack and all his cohorts to life in this long-standing favorite. Every character was created by a human hand, and every gesture was animated by moving each puppet in tiny increments from frame to frame.
This bo
...morePaperback, 192 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Disney Editions
(first published October 14th 1993)
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This is the dark yet wickedly cool making-of book for The Nightmare Before Christmas.
There are three parts to the book, The Film, The Art and The Vision.
The first part is on how Tim Burton came up with his story and characters, the process of getting approval from movie studios to get his idea, asking Henry Selick to direct. If you still remember the tunes from the movie, this section contains the lyrics and you can sing ...more
This book is about how the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas was made. I liked this book because it gave me background information on one of my favorite movies. I learned a lot about how the movie was made. One of the things I learned was that it took Tim Burton 10 years to make because the stop motion animation process takes so long. Stop motion animation is when you make the characters out of clay and then you position the characters in the way that you want them then you take a pictu...more
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I loved this book, It has copies of some of the lyrics from Danny Elfman's songs in the film. The Thompson went into alot of detail into decribing how the puppets were created, how they work ect. And over all I found this book really interesting. There were also quite alot of photos from a production stand point. I would have liked a copy of Tim Burton's original poem included as well as some more of his sketches. But other then that I thought it the book was really well done and it makes me ap...more
This book takes you into the fantastical world of the Nightmare Before Christmas, it tells how Tim Burton's original idea and poem became the much loved film, from how the music was written to how the characters themselves were made and animated. The book includes illustrations showing the sequence from Burton's original sketches through the artists hands to the final scenes and photos from the sets themselves without losing any of the magic from the movie or the story. A very interesting read...more
This book is a most beautiful and heart-warming tribute to a movie that is powerful that not even the most omnipresent and blatant commercialization has been able to strip it of its magic and craftsmanship. An excellent balance between texts and images makes this book a most enjoyable reading. Tim Burton's original sketches, matched with illustrations and photographs from the whole production process, mixed with the (almost) complete lyrics from the soundtrack and Frank Thompson's caring and ins...more
this is a book about a guy name jack who lives in Halloween land and now he found another holiday and is trying to make it his world and he catches someone and when they catch the right person someone comes back to bring it to the boogie man
I found out and learned so much! Favorite movie and such talented people. A lot of information, illustrations, photos, and detailed drawings.
great book
A reasonable in-depth look at the history of stop-motion animation, the film itself, as well as the "behind the scenes" info.
Read as research for podcast episode.
Read as research for podcast episode.
Very interesting and informative--and loaded with pictures, sketches, and photos!
a must for a nightmare collector.
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