#Henry sellick

[sourbluerazz]

A hellmaiden 😈⚡️😈

+ 2nd version, I like that bg too much to keep it covered

[demonoflight]

I absolutely love how, on the eve of The Nightmare Before Christmas’ 30th anniversary, there’s actual pushback on how unfair it is that it’s all credited to Tim Burton

Henry Sellick, Danny Elfman, Caroline Thompson and the cast and crew of The Nightmare Before Christmas worked their asses off and created one of the most beautiful movies of all time and it’s about time they get the recognition they so deeply deserve

[aemiliuslives]

Daily Challenge 2023, Day 3. This is my 3D sculpture of the Mayor of Halloween Town from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (turntable animation in my stories).

[whilomm]

personally im never gonna outright say about a piece of media "oh this universe doesnt need any more stories told" for a lot of reasons but i do absolutely think a lotta ppl in charge of getting the Stories Told are dogshit at choosing which ones to tell. like yes there is sooo much to do with star wars but they always wanna do the jedi and not some random ass bullshit that could be really fun like zooming in on some "nobody" like a space janitor at a space restaurant in a story that has nothing to do with the resistance or the empire and is just fucking "heres life for this random schmuck in the star wars universe"

okay honestly i think you could sell me a story from fucking any franchise thats just "here is a story about this random fuck and it has literally fucking nothing to do with the main plotline besides being in the same universe" bc so long as its done fucking WELL thats just. so fucking good. but noooo they always gotta do prequels and sequels and reintroduce fan favorites and all that fucking bullshit

...but also idk maybe im just a weirdo who loves minutiae like. the more fucking tiny and random the details you pull from the more im into it. bonus points if you also bring the logistics and drudgery of the universe into it.

[chaifootsteps]

As a lifelong fan of Neil Gaiman, the recent allegations shattered my heart into pieces. Unless the podcast is entirely lying about what Neil said, at bare minimum Neil had sexual relations with women decades younger than him, one of whom was his employee and the other a fan of his, meaning there's a severe power imbalance even if he didn't SA them.

I can't entirely blame some Viv fans for not wanting to believe what Viv has done, though I think more people are starting to. Realizing someone you supported is an awful person sucks. A lot.

The only thing I think could be more heartbreaking for me is if it came out that David Tennant did something awful.

Still going to probably see Coraline in theaters again for the anniversary, as Henry Sellick had much more involvement than Neil, plus "separate the art from the artist" and all that. I've had to do the same with Drake and Josh, The Loud House, and Danny Phantom. But damn it sucks.

-Afterlife Anon

That one blindsided me too. It's a damn shame and leaves you not really wanting to think highly of anyone.

[velvetfoxgames]

VF Anna, this question is for you✨ Who or what are your inspirations, be it for Infinite Blue or writing/gamedev in general?

And as always, please delete if you’re not comfy. Have a good timezone hehee

Hi Itsu! For Infinite Blue it's basically just Mystic Messenger because I hadn't really played any VNs/otome games before MM 😅

In general relevant storytelling inspirations for me are Tim Burton/Henry Sellick, Studio Ghibli and anime series like Full Metal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, Baccano, Cowboy Bebop, and Monster.

Writing wise it's a bit all over the place, but I love whimsical stuff like Howl's Moving Castle (the book), mysteries like Agatha Christie novels, and horror like from good old Steven King. I do enjoy genre hopping, both in reading and writing.

Music is also a huge inspiration! Thanks for the question :)

[bravestworriers]

writer interview game <3

thank u to @pricemarshfield who tagged me in this :) i'm so glad we're friends and u let me bombard you with random writing snippets as i go along!

i will be tagging the og writing wife @atxvanhalen (circa 2012), ao3 famous bffl @riverdanceeee, fantasy-pilled love of my life @multilevelmargoting, the coolest film reviewer in the biz @kaafka, and my begrudgingly kind editor @takeavacation2010 . & anyone else who'd like to write a little something about themselves!

read below if you dare!!!

When did you start writing?

probably as long ago as i could figure out how to & started winning little competitions for it! i love telling stories, usually through a visual medium (storyboarding, screenwriting etc), but it's all writing at the end of the day, no matter how put it down on a page.

i recently located my half finished writing from elementary school (so i must have started from the age of at least 8), all in the email drafts of my oldest email account, and it's always a treat to see how i used to think about romance, about drama and all that good stuff! (i was wrong and sad, but adorably so!)

Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write?

i love big sci-fi adventures, heists, life or death sort of stuff, just as long as it's grounded in something tangible and human. i also just love media where you can tell that the artists are having a lot of fun with the medium and they way they're piecing everything together. like i adore the films kneecap (dir. rich peppiatt) and american animals (dir. bart layton) and dick johnson is dead (dir. kirsten johnson), even though i could never see myself writing a true story/biopic feature like that -- they're just exploring what a feature film compiling those ideas looks like today, fighting against the rules of what people think it should be, and just going for it. other than that, i watch a lot of BAD movies and BAD tv because it's fascinating to pull it apart and figure out where things went wrong -- like looking under the hood of a fucked up car.

mostly, i think i read and watch a lot of the types of things i like to write, lots of introspective dramedies and coming of age stories. but usually no tragedy, it makes me too sad.

Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often?

in school i got compared a LOT to tim burton (i made a lot of fantasy focused films that existed in the real world), which honestly feels like a little bit of an insult now. if i was compared to henry sellick, now that would be a compliment.

i'd love to emulate documentarian and cinematographer kirsten johnson! (it's not going to happen. but i love her.)

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

i really can write anywhere, as long as it's in complete isolation listening to the same piece of music over and over until whatever i'm doing is complete (that's the autism for ya!). usually when i'm working, i'm lying down in bed in the evening, or weirdly standing with my computer on a counter in the kitchen early in the morning as i'm getting ready for my day. i'm a slow writer and can't get anything done without a deadline (work related) or a special interest (fic related), and usually things sputter aimlessly until someone explicitly asks for it (this is why my ao3 never has anything finished. sorry guys! #shamelssplug!)

(right now the piece of music i'm listening to is norman's walk by jon brion. and yes, if you're curious, my repetition of single pieces of music always messes up my spotify wrapped.)

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

the only theme i can think of is one of meeting someone that you're meant to meet, exactly at the point in your life that you are meant to meet them. life is chance upon chance upon chance, i've found, and i love capturing that life-changing feeling as it balances temporarily on a pinpoint. i especially love when it ends in tragedy too.

agnes varda's cleo from five to seven is a favourite of this trope. a bit of severance by ming le also has this concept wrapped up in it. and billy wilder's the apartment.

i don't think it surprises me though, i think it's always something i'm looking for in life. to eventually look back and see the path i made, and to know even if i didn't at the time, that it was the right one because of the people i had the pleasure of meeting, even briefly.

i also love 90s wedding movies and the strict structure they're written with, it's fun to replicate and poke fun of in my own work.

What is your reason for writing?

i started writing because i would get really overwhelmed with my feelings over whatever was going on in my life, and need to parse through them somehow. they say it's always best to start with a nugget of something, and build off of it. it's how i've coped with everything from romantic kerfuffles, to immigration, and racism, to parents splitting up, death, and everything else life has to offer. explicitly in my writing, or not.

maybe i've just been exceptionally lucky, but every time i've shared something that felt so isolating and devastating i did not know how to deal with it, i've always met someone after the fact who looked me in the eyes and told me they felt exactly the same thing.

it makes me love being a person on this planet.

How do you want to be thought about by your readers?

i don't know! if you like it, please let me know! if you don't, please don't tell me i'll think about it for the next twelve years of my life and also cry.

no, but in all seriousness, i just want to make people feel like some part of them is understood, whatever that looks like. yell into the void with me, or yell back at me from the void, whatever works best for you.

What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

pacing and emotional beats. i can always feel when a scene is done, or when i want it to be done. i love writing the emotional stuff, i don't really care about the stuff that it takes to get there, other than it makes those beats happen.

writing my dialogue is like pulling teeth. writing my inner monologue gets convoluted. writing, i'm a slower than the oldest, most decrepit turtle. writing my descriptions can get too long in screenplay format. literally nothing but pacing out a story and hitting those emotional beats.

How do you feel about your own writing?

it makes me sick to my stomach. after i've obsessed over something for months and it's done, i can't look at it. i'm always terrified that it's so much worse than i want it to be, or that i'm envisioning it is. (i've had this exact experience at a festival with one of my films before and it haunts me forever.) i need other people to tell me it's written okay before i start to feel normal about it. i want to get over this sensation eventually, but it doesn't seem like it's happening anytime soon.

that being said, i don't think i could make myself stop writing and telling stories if i wanted to. my cross to bear, i suppose.

that's all. thanks for this, sarah, and if anyone read this, i hope you enjoyed it :^)

[thenightling]

This is ...cursed. It is being shared on every Halloween page or group I follow and so many people are loving it without quesiton.

Does no one notice what's wrong with it?

First... It's AI art, and it's bad AI art. Does no one notice Jack has two months? either that or his skull had to be sutured back together for some reason.

Second, Tim Burton has openly said he disapproves of AI generated art of his characters. He finds it creepy and soulless. And yes, Jack is Tim Burton's creation. Henry Sellick directed the movie but the original short story (written in poem form) and character designs were Tim Burton's.

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Thoughts on Tim Burton?

i think Burton is a horrible person, racist, and mostly dogshit filmmaker who made good movies for a very brief period of time.

to break it down:

1. Burton made some movies i sincerely love, including Batman, Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, and Ed Wood. they have their flaws, but i think they’re great movies full of heart with an iconic style.

2. his once-charming signature style has devolved into an embarrassing parody of itself, exaggerated and ugly and void of substance.

3. save for Sweeney Todd, i don’t think he has made a good film since the 90s.

Mars Attacks! completely fails as a campy sci-fi horror comedy.

Big Fish has a punchable main character, shitty message, and wasted ideas.

Sleepy Hollow is a dull adaptation that proves he cannot make a thoughtful gothic horror.

his remakes… good fucking god, his remakes are atrocious. they consistently shit on their sources while being packed with cliche stories, empty characters, and garishly ugly art design that screams TIM BURTON MADE THIS, SEE? IT WILL LOOK GREAT ON AN OVERPRICED SHIRT FROM HOT TOPIC! what he did to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was insulting.

4. this is the most important one: even if Burton was still making good movies, i wouldn’t give him a dime. his racist comments coupled with his gross casting history and the way he stripped all Jewish influence from Corpse Bride tells me everything i need to know about his beliefs.

and, to be blunt, i will never trust someone who has a history of such close creative and personal relationships with bastards like Depp and Elfman.

5. Henry Sellick did The Nightmare Before Christmas and i’m sick of Burton getting credit.

[spermeboy]

get to know ME ! 🤍

my top 4 films are : (AS OF RIGHT NOW)

- rosemary's baby

- beetlejuice

- three men and a baby

- logan

my top celebrity crushes are ↷

- hugh jackman

- tom sellick

- henry cavill

- drew starkey

- nicholas alexander chavez

my top 4 tv shows are ↷

- desperate housewives

- outer banks

- gilmore girls

- modern family

my top 4 music artists are ↷

- ariana grande

- fleetwood mac

- jade

- the driver era

[wanderingmind867]

I blocked Neil Gaiman, and I want to talk about it. You know how I usually feel bad blocking people? Well, he's the exception. Him and Henry sellick deserve to rot in the bowels of hell. There's a lot of people I say I hate when I'm mad, but Neil Gaiman is someone I actually hate. Alongside such illustrious figures as my elementary school bully and other horror writers like Stephen King. I'll never forgive tgem. And that's saying something, cause I've felt sympathy/pity for some pretty bad people (but that's a topic for another post). Point really is: I hate him so much that I don't know if I'd ever run out of spite for him!

[roskirambles]

(Archive) Christmas movie of the day: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Originally posted: 4th December, 2021 I'm not a fan of the Christmas bleed. Every year Halloween and even other festivities such as Thanksgiving seem to take a backseat the moment November starts, as if there was a desperate need for Christmas to bring good vibes. So let's have some fun in remembrance of that time when Halloween stole the show.

Based on a poem by Tim Burton, this film is a lot more simple than the hype around it would lead new viewers to believe. While you could argue there's high stakes here with Christmas being a big deal, at it's core the movie is about Jack Skellington and his self discovery. This isn't a film trying to be hype at every turn, it has lots of slower beats and many characters are presented rather simplistically. This isn't a bad thing, but many people seem to think conflict should come from things like a nuanced romance or a multilayered antagonist and that's not always the case. Sally doesn't go into excruciating detail about why she loves Jack and Oogie Boogie isn't the driving force of the story. He's just a final opponent and that's okay.

But hey, this is an animated movie, and a gorgeous one at that. Under the watchful eye Henry Sellick (the true champion of this movie, as he fleshed Burton's poem into a more complete whole), the animation work here is fantastic. I love the way character movement expresses their personality here, even the way they walk communicates their role in cool ways (just look how spider-like Jack's movement looks at times). The set designs are also a work of marvel, drawing from German Expressionism like most works with Burton would. Same gos for characters, they're as charming as they're slightly creepy.

This movie is as good for Halloween as it is for Christmas honestly. Or any time of the year, really.

[soul-dwelling]

I wonder how a full on slice of life series with the main charachters would go over, if the lack of plot would annoye people. People allways seem to like the snippets that we get of the kids just being kids. Also NOT doesnt count cause it was just random charachter that nobody liked lol

Based on what fanfics have accomplished, yes, a slice of life series would work--if it sticks to the tone of the original series. 

That’s the thing: I have read arguments lately about how fanfics work because they do what canon can’t, and once you start using those tropes in the canon, it comes off as cringe, or poorly written, or “fanfic-y.” And there are definitely works that I think have suffered from trying to be like fanfiction, and some franchises who have hired people who got popular online first for writing fanfics in the franchises they later got hired for. 

But with Soul Eater, there were already bits and pieces that were slice of life--and still worked for the characters. And that does include the few moments we saw the main cast of Soul Eater bouncing off of each other in NOT (my defense of NOT will come up in a moment). 

I think people didn’t appreciate those moments in NOT because the tone was off. It’s not that the moe choice was bad in NOT, it just wasn’t that odd gothic creepy goofy “Tim Burton/Henry Sellick meets Jamie Hewlett” vibe of the original. 

So, to make the slice of life work, you need to lean into what made Soul Eater as a setting work. 

You can have slice of life stories--that still are spooky and bizarre. 

You have Sid: show us slice of life stories about living as a zombie, and how Black Star and others react to that. 

You have literal gods like Lord Death: what is their daily life like, and how does Kid reflect on the difference of that godly life and the lives of his human friends? 

You have Death City, where everything has “death” in the name: not to promote myself, but I came up with enough puns on this blog for all the different businesses that have to exist in this town, show us those businesses, give us more than Deathbucks or Death Robbins, show us a flower shop called Pushing Up the Daisies. 

But NOT didn’t do any of this. Aside from showing us how Death Children have a unique lexicon and the meals all have “dead” in the name, what did we get that was really slice of life but within Death City? Show us how these characters react in this setting--put the characters in it, let their lives play out. We have similar stories, where it’s creepy and gothic, but still slice of life and not an action story: Creepy Cat, The Addams Family. Those examples were out there, but NOT didn’t tap into it. 

And that leads to my defense of NOT: I like Tsugumi--she fits the story. It just sucks that there isn’t really any trajectory to her story, because it doesn’t end. The anime just has her back in classes with her two meisters; Ohkubo just had to end the manga with a corny gag that Tsugumi is still so indecisive about choosing a meister. If Chapter 113 hadn’t been such a mess, why couldn’t we have had a scene showing where Tsugumi is, even if it’s that she never went into EAT and instead continued her slice-of-life story back in school in Japan? 

[spicebiter]

I haven't seen Wendell and Wild yet but I read that Henry Sellick made it so the seams of the different face plates were visible on characters so as to help distinguish the film as being stop motion rather than 3d animated since that's a whole issue with the advancements of the style. And tbh now when I see gifs and screenshots of the film I can't stop noticing it because I kind of just took it as a stylistic thing, really. It gives kind of a charming addition to the faces of characters, being able to see the line on their noses where the face plates connect. I go out of my way to look at the pictures to find all those seams lol.

I think what I really like about stop motion is all of the small distinctions of movement that set it apart from 3d animations. I'm sure there's someone that can animate in 3d well enough to mimic it but I feel that the specific details of stop motion are hard to imitate with computer generation from the way the clothing wrinkles to the texture differences between the character models and their clothing and the sets. I know it's definitely imitatable but I don't think I've ever seen it done. I suppose just watching it casually and not having as much knowledge on animation would make it hard for a person to be able to tell if something is 3d animated or not, especially since I know if I wasn't so interested in stop motion I probably couldn't tell the difference. It can move so smoothly that when compared to today's 3d animation there's not as much difference as there used to be. Still, I like that you can still feel the organic nature of stop motion come through, even without being able to see the face plate seams and all. There's a definite dimension the style holds that doesn't come through with other animations or even with live action, and it's super cool being able to witness that.

[justanapparatus]

the nightmare before christmas is a good movie but the way it has become The Halloween Mascot is so annoying to me. yes my hatred of Tim Burton and the way no one recognizes Henry Sellick as the actual creative mind behind the project is part of it but most of it is that I'm sick of seeing that fucking skeleton

[dragon-teapot]

Henry Sellick casually mentioning ocean at the end of the lane as a potential stop motion film....aaaaaaaa

“...made an attempt to adapt it into a stop-motion animated feature, and wrote a 50 pages script. He has expressed hope that he will still be able to make it some day “

I keep thinking of the scene where Ursula turns up as rotten fabric/ canvas - would look amazing. And I would die to see his version of the hunger birds.