PRECEDENTS I

I have always been a fan of the filmmaker, director, and animator Tim Burton. I found Tim Burton’s thesis from his college days (1982), and watched the stop-motion puppet animation, Vincent, which was based on a poem he wrote, read by his acquaintance and inspiration, Vincent Price.

During Spring Break of 2oo8, I looked through the art book of Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and noticed that Burton also based that popular puppet stop-motion on a poem that he developed with the just Jack (the main character) and Zero (his faithful pet dog).

Both of these are puppet animation, which I will not be following. However, the concept of the narrative originating as an original poem intrigued me, and helped start turning the gears for my thought process.





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