Some interesting information about TNMBC, for your reading and learning enjoyment!
Facts about the Movie Stop-Motion-Animation research
Movie Facts:
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Listed on the payroll for "Nightmare" was a crew that included mold makers, sculptors, armature makers, fabricators, storyboard artists, set builders, camera operators, computer operators, computer technicians, animators, effects animators, and dozens of other people doing various other "odds and ends" work. |
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At the end of production there were nineteen stages and fourteen animators working simultaneously. Yet their combined efforts produced about only seventy seconds of finished film per week. |
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From the concept of Tim Burton’s original poems and sketches, to the completion of the movie, "Nightmare" took well over a decade to create. |
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All together, there were 227 puppets made for TNMBC |
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The largest puppet's plaster mold weighed in at about 200 lbs! (I'm assuming the largest was Oogie Boogie.) |
I based my entire senior project in high school on the art of Stop-Motion-Animation, with its focus on The Nightmare Before Christmas. The project consisted of my own short film done in this style, as well as an extensive research paper, titled "The Evolution of Stop-Motion-Animation." Ok, so I was/am a little bit obsessed! If you would like to read my research paper in its entirety, just click here!