Henry Selick overview

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Biography:

Roles: Animator, Co-producer, Director, Executive Producer, Production Designer, Producer, Screenwriter, Stop-Motion Animation

Active Years: 1977-2013

In the early '90s, a maverick animator named Henry Selick, then of limited public recognition, inherited the much-coveted task of helming one of visionary Tim Burton's longtime pet projects, The Nightmare Before Christmas -- not by any stretch the first stop-motion animated feature (the technique had been used, to varying degrees, for decades), but one that imparted to the technique a mesmerizing fluidity unseen up through that time in cinemas.

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