The Dark World of Tim Burton-III

This is the 3rd in my series on Tim Burton’s movies.

For earlier posts check here and here. This post is primarily to take a look at Burton’s landmark 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was done using a stop motion effect.

What is Stop Motion Effect?

The basic concept of Stop Motion effect is to give the appearance of an object moving on it’s own. So what we effectively have here is, if say i were to capture the motion of a coin. So Frame 1 would have the coin at a particular spot, in Frame 2 i would move the coin to another spot, not too far from it, so when you play the frames as a continous sequence, you get the illusion of movement.

Tim Burton first experimented with this idea in a 1982 short Vincent, which he made as a homage to his idol …


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