The Art of Tim Burton, Standard Edition

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I’ve had the good fortune to see the images Tim dashes off to communicate an important thought to his collaborators. Economically but sublimely drawn, they often put across one simple-but-great-idea. His narrative temperament dictates an expressionistic visual style that selectively reveals the emotional heart of his story: one that entertains without burying meaning beneath multiple layers of expository clutter and gratuitous business’. Edward Scissorhands (1990) Tim Burton

Between his love for Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe, skeletons, and cemeteries, Burton soaked up plenty of gothic inspiration as a child. But remember — he also grew up in peaceful, quintessentially suburban Burbank, where he was constantly fascinated with thoughts of ominous and dark things lurking beneath the surface. Frankenweenie‘ was another stop-motion short. However, Disney fired Burton after claiming the film was too dark. Burton is now planning to re-release it. By the time Disney released Burton’s full-length feature version of Frankenweenie in 2012, Burton’s name had become an undeniable brand of its own. And that brand was still closely associated with Disney, which had by then happily embraced him as a producer and director on several of its films. Describing his on-again, off-again relationship with Disney to the Independent upon Frankenweenie’s 2012 release, Burton simply said, “I’ve been hired and fired by Disney three different times. I’m used to it.”

Burton had admired Johnny Depp for his work on 21 Jump Street and cast him in the title role of the cult film Edward Scissorhands. And the great thing about Elfman is that his scores are always exaggerated, and singularly unique that fits like a glove inside the Tim Burton style. Burton’s rendition of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was a success. Burton originally saw the musical three times on Broadway. It’s thanks to him we can enjoy movies like Big Fish, Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, and so many more.

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Paul A. Woods (2007). Tim Burton: A Child's Garden of Nightmares. Plexus Publishing. p.150. ISBN 978-0-85965-401-2. Is the Tim Burton Exhibition at LACMA for Kids?". museumstories.com. September 26, 2011 . Retrieved March 6, 2017. The slides give a number of the silhouette type scenes for students to use for inspiration. Further developing a character drawing and students are to look at the number of different slides and these could be printed off for students and letting them develop their own character. Some of the You tube film clips are linked on the slides as well. Students draw out the character and then colour this in.