Animation Project Stop Motion Animation: Tim Burton Tim Burton is an American director, artist and animator, who is known for his use of dark, and sometimes, morbid themes. Tim has had several of his films, such as Corpse Bride and Nightmare Before Christmas, become largely popular with a collective fan base of both adult and child audiences. His animation work was what originally brought him to work at Disney, where he progressed from working on regular illustrated Disney films to his own dark stop motion animation. Though he uses both live action and animation methods for films he participates in, his stop motion films are among his frequently used and most popular works. His very first self created animation project was the six minute stop motion piece 'Vincent', which was the gateway to more stop motion animation projects. The following is quoted from Tim speaking about his experiences with animation and what inspires his use of it: 'There is an energy with stop-motion that you can't even describe. It's got to do with giving things life, and I guess that's why I wanted to get into animation originally. To give life to something that doesn't have it is cool, and even more so in three dimensions, because, at least for me, it feels even more real. It was after Vincent, so I was really into stop-motion. I'd seen claymation, I'd seen stop-motion, the Harry Hausen things. On Vincent, we weren't trying to push the boundaries of great animation. What we were trying to do with it, in a very simple way, was be more specific with design. To me, in claymation the design elements get lost. So what we wanted to do was what you do in a drawing, but just spring it to the third dimension.'