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Henry Selick
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Director, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Animator, Stop-Motion Animation Biography: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. Nightmare marked Selick's broadest exposure to date and his first entrance into the public eye, but only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Selick's career in the movie business actually began over 15 years prior, and encompassed a whole host of rare and astonishing accomplishments that led Roger Ebert to term him "a veteran."
As a man of prodigious illustrative ability, Selick graduated from CalArts in the late '70s and wasted no time launching his career.... Full Biography
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