Quote Originally Posted by higher4hockey
burton makes some good flicks, corpse bride and nightmare before christmas are very impressive. even if you don't like the movies, you have to respect the time and effort that went into them.
right on dude

there were about 60 major characters for the film (when i say major characters, i mean characters that had to have puppets and duplicate puppets), they had to make several duplicate puppets for almost every major character, which means they ended up with around 200 puppets, they had about 20 stages going at once, and as many as 15 animators working at once. they had to make multiple heads for each puppet because of all the different facial expressions and emotions displayed (even blinking!), and if i remember correctly, jack skellington had about 250 different heads.

this was the first full-length claymation film. stop motion animation - every single frame and motion is filmed as a new action. so everytime something happens, every frame has to be stopped, and the puppet has the be moved for each frame...if there's a problem with a frame (some are 400 frame shots), the entire 400 frame shot had to be re-shot. to complete just one minute of finished film took an entire week of shooting (and that's a conservative estimate) - and nightmare is 76 minutes long.

there are also lots of special effects with shadows and ghosts and such.

this was the first stop motion animation movie with these kinds of production values.

sorry, not trying to preach. this is just my fave movie and i love it, and i'm just stating the facts