Henry Selick

...Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." (That film's animation director, Henry Selick, was slated to work on "Mr. Fox" but instead did "Coraline," which is a delight of its own.) In his last couple of films (especially "The...

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...film business. Movies from "Toy Story" to "9" have copied the concern for the tiniest of writing details and the luscious visual textures that director Henry Selick used to bring the Tim Burton story and characters to life. Although...

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...Mrs. Fox, Bill Murray as a badger, Willem Dafoe as a rat. "Fox'' is, in other words, part of a new hipster kiddie wave, pioneered by Burton and his occasional collaborator Selick. "Where the Wild Things Are'' ups the ante: The film's...

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...Institute of the Arts. Lasseter was taught by three members of Disney's Nine Old Men - Eric Larson, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston - his classmates included Brad Bird, John Musker, Henry Selick and Tim Burton. On May 2, 2009, Lasseter...

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...aEURoeCoralineaEUR� wasnaEUR™t his either. That still doesnaEUR™t mean, however, that someone as creative as Burton hasnaEUR™t visually influenced a director like Henry Selick or Shane Acker. In aEURoe9,aEUR� Acker, who turns his 2006...

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...just before his death. Today, many of his students carry out his influence through their work, which include John Lasseter, Henry Selick, Tim Burton, Stephen Hillenburg, Joanna Priestley, Christine Panushka, Peter Chung, Glen Keane, Ellen...

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...Musker, Phil Nibbelink, Richard Rich , Burny Mattinson, Melvin Shaw, Jeffrey J. Varab, John Pomeroy, Joe Ranft, Jerry Rees, Henry Selick, and Tad Stones among many others. Larson was married to Gertrude Larson, who died of cancer in 1975.

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