Book Review: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film - The Art - The Vision

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film - The Art - The Vision

This is the dark yet wickedly cool making-of book for The Nightmare Before Christmas.

There are three parts to the book, The Film, The Art and The Vision.

The first part is on how Tim Burton came up with his story and characters, the process of getting approval from movie studios to get his idea, asking Henry Selick to direct. If you still remember the tunes from the movie, this section contains the lyrics and you can sing along (if you want to).

The second section is the art. This is where you'll see the nitty gritty details on art direction, creating sets, sculpting characters and all sorts of post production work. The creative illustrations, film stills and photos aren't limited to this section as they are throughout the whole book. There's a good amount of artwork drawn by Tim Burton himself, in his usual scrawly scratchy style.

The last part is additional commentary on the film with Tim Burton, Henry Selick (director), Danny Elfman (music), Caroline Thompson (screenwriter), Kathleen Cavin (producer) and Denise Di Novi (producer). They analyse the film from their own unique perspective and expertise, looking back at the challenges and fun working on the set.

This is a nice visual companion, especially if you like the movie.

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2 Comments

Your book looks different

Your book looks different than the one I have (like the one on small Amazon image, Disney Editions written on spine).
Is it some new edition? Cover looks much better. And the size - mine is 21,5 x 27,5 cm...

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