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Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
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... 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' was the first full-length stop-motion animated film ever crafted? ... it started as a poem Tim Burton wrote while working as an animator at Disney in the early '80s? ... Santa Claus' head has more than 50 different working parts? ... Jack has more than 400 separate interchangeable heads, each handcrafted with a different facial expression?
... Sally has 10 types of interchangeable faces, each with 11 separate mouth expressions? ... the smallest working puppet in 'Nightmare' is a doll from the 'real world' Jack visits -- the whole doll is only an inch long? ... Sally is wearing a real, miniature dress? It's laid on top of foam latex so that the fabric doesn't move too much on screen. ... at the height of production, the animators produced only 70 seconds of finished film per week? Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' ... to create Halloweentown's interestingly twisted look, the design artists often sketched their designs with their non-drawing hands? ... Santa's 'naughty or nice' list is made of two thin sheets of paper with a sheet of aluminum foil sandwiched in-between so that it wouldn't move even slightly between shots?