Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton born August 25, 1958, is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, macabre, and quirky horror and fantasy films such as the horror comedy fantasy Beetlejuice in 1988, the romantic dark fantasy-thriller The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993, the comedy-drama biopic Ed Wood in 1994, the fantasy adventure Sleepy Hollow in 1999, the animated fantasy Corpse Bride in 2005, the musical horror film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007, the horror comedy Dark Shadows in 2012 and the animated horror comedy Frankenweenie in 2012. He is also known for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985, the superhero films Batman in 1989 and its first sequel Batman Returns in 1992, the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes in 2001, the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005 and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland in 2010, which garnered a worldwide gross of over $1 billion worldwide, being Burton's most successful film to date.
Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together, He has also with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but two of the films Burton has directed. Actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997.Will Vinton
Will Vinton born November 17, 1947 is an American director and producer of animation films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland, He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio. Meeting clay animator Bob Gardiner in the Berkeley, California area in the early 1970s, Vinton brought his to Portland and the two commandeered Vinton's home basement to make a quick 1 and a half minute test film of clay animation and the supporting armatures called Wobbly Wino, system for animating his Boles Rex-5 16mm camera and the to began work in mid-1973 on an 8-minute 16mm short film about a drunk wino who stumbles into a closed art museum and interacts with the painting and sculptures. Completed in late 1974 after 14 months of production, the innovation film combined Gardiner's amazing sculpting skills with Vinton's considerable camera skills and Closed Mondays stunned film festival judges around the world. Close Mondays then won an Oscar for best animated short film in the spring of 1975, the first film produced on Portland to do so.
Still with only a handful of animators, Vinton produced a highly polished trilogy of 27- minute fairy tales in the late 1970s and early 1980s; Martin the Cobbler in 1977, Rip Van Winkle in 1978, and The Little Prince in 1979, The 3 films were later collectively theatrically released under the title Trilogy, then to video as The Little Prince and Friends. IN 1978 Vinton produced the documentary Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation a 17-minute film featuring the behind-the-scenes technical processes used. The term Claymation was later trademarked by Vinton, and has become synonymous with clay animation in general.
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park born 6 December 1958 is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts in 1989, The Wrong Trousers in 1993, A Close Shave in 1995, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005.
In 1985, he joined the staff of Aardman and Animation in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products including the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", where he worked on the dance scene involving oven- chicken. He also had a part in animating the Pee-wee's Playhouse which featured Paul Reubens. Along with all this, he had finally completed A Grand Day Out, and with that in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called "Lips Synch". Creature Comforts matched animation zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards. A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Nick Park his first Oscar.
