Throughout his career, movie journalist Tim Lammers has talked with director Tim Burton and the key players who helped bring the stop-motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie to life. <br><br>Now for the first time, Lammers has assembled the stories from Burton and his band of creatives all in one place. In Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton, you will not only hear from Burton, but Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Allison Abbate, Martin Landau, Elijah Wood, Atticus Shaffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, the late Ray Harryhausen, and more. The release of Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton comes as the 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas celebrates its 20th anniversary. <br><br>Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton also includes a foreword by Tim Burton.
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Tim Lammers. Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton (Foreword by Tim Burton)
Foreword
Chapter One: The Girl with Blue Hair
Chapter Two: This Is Halloween
Chapter Three: A New World View
Chapter Four: Here Comes the Corpse
Chapter Five: Empty Sockets
Chapter Six: Alive Again
Chapter Seven: All in the Family
Chapter Eight: Inside the Laboratory
Chapter Nine: No Compromise
Chapter Ten: Animation Preservation
Chapter Eleven: Being Tim Burton
About the author
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Tim Lammers Q & A
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I started my career in cell animation and have since utilized both stop-motion and computer animation. I appreciate all forms—each has its advantages. I have a special place in my heart, however, for stop-motion. There's something about the dimension, texture and physical armatures that I've always loved. It's a visceral, tangible experience. It's a field that often gets overlooked and that I hope will continue to exist. I'm happy that a respected journalist like Tim Lammers is an advocate of the medium. It will be people like him, as much as directors and filmmakers, who will help keep the art form alive.
—Tim Burton
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"So, what really wasn't necessarily a major success sort of had the perception of being successful a few years later, which I think made it a little easier for Corpse Bride. It did have an impact—and I'll take what I can get," Burton added with a laugh.
Burton has often been labeled as "quirky" over the years, and given the exteriors of his original characters it's easy to see why. Whether it be Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood or Victor Van Dort, or new takes on existing creations such as Willy Wonka, Sweeney Todd, and Barnabas Collins, the characters in Burton's films definitely march to the beat of their different drummer, most often lockstep with Burton's frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp.
