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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion (commemorating 30 Years)

by David A. Bossert

Just in time for the whimsical holiday classic film's 30th anniversary comes a deep-dive reflection about the making of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas! This enchanting coffee table book features new interviews with the filmmakers and rare images from the Disney and Burton art collections!Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas was crafted as a piece of art- a visual masterpiece that blended together the genius of Tim Burton's simple story and endearing characters with Danny Elfman's eclectic music; Henry Selick's stop-motion brilliance; Caroline Thompson's heartfelt script; and the painstaking efforts of hundreds of artists, animators, and technicians-all wrapped in a world that only Burton could conjure up. Paired with stunning and never-before-released art and photography, this book transports readers into a one-of-a-kind, retrospective journey detailing how Nightmare was thoughtfully crafted and all the ways in which the fan community worldwide has embraced the film ever since.This beautiful volume serves as the must-have book for fans of the film, artists and art collectors, and anyone who appreciates some frightfully good movie magic.

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Author Biography

David A. Bossert is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and author. He worked at The Walt Disney Company for more than thirty-two years and is now an independent producer, creative director, and writer. Bossert contributed his talents to The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Fantasia/2000, Destino and many others. He is a member of the CalArts Board of Trustees and is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) in Pittsburgh. Bossert is an authority on Disney animation history and has written numerous articles, liner notes, and concert program notes related to animation. He co-authored Disney Animated, which was named iPad App of 2013 by Apple and won a prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. Learn more at

Review

Dave Bossert has created a wonderful book to commemorate Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, more than thirty years on. He masterfully blends interviews with Tim Burton, Danny Elman, and myself along with many of the talented artists who worked on the film into a very nuanced and personal picture of how the movie actually came together, was made, and went from a cult favorite to a holiday classic. It's a remarkable book about a remarkable, one-of-a-kind renegade project that has stood the test of time.
   —Henry Selick, Director, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

"Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has become a cult-film favorite for fans of Tim Burton, Halloween, Santa, and Disney . . . now Dave Bossert gives us the must-have bible about the history and making of this legendary animated classic."
   —Don Hahn, Producer/Director

"Dave Bossert's research is impeccable, his text is an easy read, and the selection of illustrations is stimulating from start to finish. This is the book I always wanted to own about a movie that has haunted me ever since its release."
   —Didier Ghez, Author of the book series They Drew As They Pleased—The Hidden Art of Disney

"What a pleasure it is to be transported back in time by author Dave Bossert and given this fascinating, hands-on ride through the making of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. With meticulous attention to detail combined with an incredible amount of research, Bossert's passion for our little movie shines brightly as he adroitly shares our creation story with the reader. It is a joy, and an honor, to see this beautifully-documented and insightful book, as it reveals the commitment of our close-knit crew to elevating the art of stop-motion and crafting the timeless story of Sally and Jack."
   —Eric Leighton, Animation Supervisor, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

"I love it when Dave Bossert writes about all things Disney. As Danny Elfman's agent and a hardcore Disney geek, I was around from the earliest moments of the creation of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, yet for all I heard and saw and thought I knew, I am stupefied at how much deeper Bossert digs and unearths. Nightmare is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. So glad the story of its birth has gotten the full Bossert treatment."
   —Richard Kraft, Co-owner/Kraft-Engel Managemen

Review Quote

Dave Bossert has created a wonderful book to commemorate The Nightmare Before Christmas, more than twenty-five years on. He masterfully blends interviews with Tim Burton, Danny Elman, and myself along with many of the talented artists who worked on the film into a very nuanced and personal picture of how the movie actually came together, was made, and went from a cult favorite to a holiday classic. It's a remarkable book about a remarkable, one-of-a-kind renegade project that has stood the test of time.-- Henry Selick, Director, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Excerpt from Book

Chapter 1 Before the Nightmare The commonality among most great film raconteurs is their early love of the movies. Those seminal moments in a dark movie theater where their imaginations were captivated by the screen images playing before their very eyes: the "gee-whiz, how''d they do that" moments when fantasy and reality blend, creating a sense of awe and wonder. For a young Tim Burton, and many of the artists who worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas, some of those key inspirational moments came from the American-British visual effects designer Ray Harryhausen and the stop-motion animation of fantastical creatures he created for special effects-oriented fantasy films like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). "Growing up with Ray Harryhausen, that kind of stop-motion was a very, very strong thing," reminisced Burton during a conversation we had in Los Angeles in 2017. As an animation technique, the stop-motion genre includes anything that requires a physical inanimate object to be manipulated and photographed frame by frame to appear as though it has come to life when the frames are run consecutively on film. Harryhausen''s process typically called for him to develop miniatures that he would then shape for each frame, meticulously managing the illusion of movement. "Jason and the Argonauts was one of the first cinematic experiences I ever remember as a child," Burton said. "When you have a certain time in a certain moment, it''s just like a perfect storm. It stays with you." Burton is not alone in attributing Harryhausen as an emotional and motivating influence. Trey Thomas, a stop-motion animator on Nightmare who continued his stop-motion work on James and the Giant Peach (1996), Corpse Bride (2005), and Coraline (2009), and eventually became the animation director on Burton''s Frankenweenie (2012), agreed completely. "I was a Ray Harryhausen fan from back in the day. I was a little kid, and it just made a huge impact on me." Legendary music composer Danny Elfman, credited as associate producer on Nightmare, for which he wrote the original score, songs, and lyrics (and also performed the singing voice of the main character Jack Skellington), recalled that Harryhausen''s films were part of the initial common interests between Burton and himself. "We grew up in L.A.; we grew up in movie theaters. And we grew up on horror. We clearly connected on that level," he believes. "There was this mutual intense adoration of Bernard Herrmann''s music and Ray Harryhausen''s animation." "You know, it''s just beautiful," said Burton of Harryhausen''s work. "And it''s interesting because I showed it to my kids; I was curious to see how they feel about Ray Harryhausen, with today''s eects, but they still like it. It just looked good." Appreciation for that timeless quality certainly contributed to the end result of Nightmare , as did the clay-animation techniques of the California-based Art Clokey, known for creating cherished children''s television shows featuring the simple-but-effective Gumby (who debuted in 1955 and ultimately turned into a global phenomenon) and later, in 1961, with the Davey and Goliath series. For broader influences worldwide, Nightmare filmmakers also cited exposure to the National Film Board of Canada shorts of the 1950s that used the pixilation technique, in which live actors served as stop-motion props. Burton himself even ascribes to the influence of the Czech stop-motion animation director Karel Zeman, who created a 1945 short that combined animated puppets and live-action footage, as well as the Russian/Polish/ French stop-motion animator Ladislas Starevich, who created the first puppet-animated film, The Beautiful Lukanida , in 1912. "That''s why I did Vincent that way," Burton said of his 1982 black-and-white short that used stop-motion 3-D models combined with hand-drawn animation. "It has a certain funky kind of handmade, crude charm." Of course, marrying stop-motion techniques with the spirit of the holidays was also influenced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass--and their beloved television specials of the 1960s and 1970s. The Rankin/Bass stop-motion films like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Santa Claus Is Comin'' to Town (1970), and The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) were first broadcast while Burton was growing up in Burbank, California. Like Nightmare now does, they each had a fascinating and eternal appeal that Burton admired. He even sought inspiration from some traditionally hand-drawn animated holiday specials of the era, like Frosty the Snowman (1969) by Rankin/Bass and Dr. Seuss'' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), which served a perfectly balanced medley of rhymes from Dr. Seuss, co-direction by legendary animators Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, and narration by horror film star Boris Karloff. "Those Christmas specials had a huge impact on me growing up," Burton said. "I was of that generation where we watched them every year." And, of course, his genius lies in marrying the nostalgia of those Christmas films with Burton''s other favorite holiday, Halloween. As a child, Burton describes himself as an introvert. And a fan of horror films; he often went to the local movie theaters by himself or sometimes with neighborhood friends. "I went to see almost any monster movie, but it was the films of Vincent Price that spoke to me specifically for some reason," Burton said. "Growing up in suburbia, in an atmosphere that was perceived as nice and normal, but which I had other feelings about, those movies were a way to certain feelings, and I related them to the place I was growing up in. I think that''s why I responded so much to Edgar Allan Poe." 1.1 In his formative years, Burton experimented with stop-motion "a little," thanks to his high school art program. "I had a great teacher, Doris Adams, who encouraged her students to be creative and to follow their passion," said Burton. In a video interview preparing for the 2011 Tim Burton exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Adams recalled Burton as her student. "I would go around [the classroom], see what people were doing, and I''d come to him. Here he''s doodling these wonderful figures, and I marveled at them." Adams further noted, "He just drew. Everything you can''t imagine, he drew." 1.2 1.1 Burton, Tim, and Mark Salisbury, ed. Burton on Burton: Revised Edition . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006; pg. 4. 1.2-1.3 LACMA Past Exhibitions: Tim Burton''s Art Teacher . Video uploaded 29 May 2011,

Details ISBN1484799852 Author David A. Bossert Pages 224 Series Disney Editions Deluxe (Film) Language English ISBN-10 1484799852 ISBN-13 9781484799857 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-09-26 UK Release Date 2023-09-26 AU Release Date 2023-09-26 NZ Release Date 2023-09-26 US Release Date 2023-09-26 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, unspecified Audience General Publisher Hyperion Imprint Hyperion Place of Publication New York

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