Although Tim took the opportunity to be apart of Alice In Wonderland Burton's unique style of work brings the story to life like Steven Spielberg's 1991 peter pan variant hook was not a strictly a remake of British Children's Classic stories and has already been wrestled into a Disney animated feature but also Tim Burton's take on the classic Alice In Wonderland follows the same story however when Alice is older, also removing characters from the animation classic of the walrus and the carpenter and the royal flush card but kept the iconic characters of the mad hatter, the queen of hearts, the cards, the cheshire cat, tweddle dee and tweddle dum.
However in Burton's films the hero's of many of his films all struggle with parents not just seen in Edward Sissorhand or in Willy Wonka with the relationship between his dad however Alice also faces this problem as she returns to London Victoria but she seeks for adventure and ends up making her way back to underland even though she is aware of the power of the drinks and the cakes to alter her size however in Alice in underland the mad hatter and cheshire cat are both eccentric characters which side against the queen of hearts.
But in my opinion I think that Burton's take on Alice In wonderland is unique, interesting and gives Disney a new look on the classics however this can only develop further as Disney had broaden their style of work immensely compared to the animated films to the computer generated films such as Tangled, Frozen and Brave which offer more realistic characters, where as Tim's take on this is CGI and live action movies make the films feel more realistic, magical and exciting creating a movie masterpiece.
" I have always been interested in the combination if live action and stop motion animations".
Originally Tim's intention for The Nightmare Before Christmas was created through the sense of Dr Seuss's films, the Grinch and Rudolph the red nose reindeer as he always loved the holiday specials however Tim's signature feature of his stop motion figures as seen in The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride have dark and sunken in eyes and tall and slim body features.
In The Nightmare Before Christmas main character Jack and "the characters that were designed for the nightmare had the added burden of not having eyeballs. The first rule of animation is; Eyes for expression" however Tim's style of drawing is to have pale skin and grey sunken eyes but "Disney, they at least understood our trying to push the envelop a little bit as far as the animation was concerned they were responsive to that"
Although "Disney immediately leapt at the chance to work the Burton" however Disney's adult orientated arm Touchstone picture and Burton set up skellington productions and began working on The Nightmare Before Christmas in July 1991, the film was marked his third movie in a row to be set at Christmas as Burton loved seasonal holidays "especially Halloween and Christmas because they were the most visual and fun".
The Nightmare Before Christmas was released Halloween 1993 and it made $51 million at the box office however it was ironically it was (mis)perceived as being too scary for kids.l
When Tim was producing storyboards for short films such as Vincent which he kept to himself as orginally Disney didn't appreciate his style of work however Disney Executive, Julie Hickson and the head of creative development, TomWilhite "began to see in his drawings a rather unique talent that while not typically Disney was one felt deserved to be nurtured", During 1982 Tom Wilhite gave Burton $60,00 to produce Vincent which was also narrated by Burton childhood idol Vincent price on the other hand "Disney were pleased with Vincent but didn't know what to with it" Although in later years Tim worked with on Hansel and Gretel produced for $116,00 for the Disney channel as a special after 4:30pm.
In Burton on Burton in the chapter of Childhood in Burbanks- Cals Ants during Tim Burton's early ages he felt 'alienated' as he used to "rip the heads off his toy soldiers and terrorize kids next door" and aimlessly sit in front of the television watching horror movies, Tim said that "I've always loved monsters and monster movies suggesting where he gets his unique dark ideas for his style of drawing however he never thought "about making films for a living" however this opportunity came for Tim "after a couple of years at Disney, "Burton joined Disney in 1979 and worked as an animator on the studio The Fox And The Hound", however during Tim's early years the Disney program offered people the opportunity of becoming an animator although Tim suggested "it was like being in the army".
Tim was there for three years and during that time "there wasn't the diversity in animation that exists now", Tim described that "Disney and I were a bad mix" and he couldn't live up to the Disney program standards as when he was making the drawings for The Fox And The Hound his sketches ended up looking like "roadkill", Tim and Disney didn't collaborate well at the beginning as Disney "want you to be an artist" but also "to be a zombie factory worker and have no personality" but on during his program he ended up becoming a conceptual artist and it became fun and he was able to express his style however when he was hired for the conceptual artist for The Black Cauldron but "they didn't use one single concept of mine".
In the majority of Tim Burton films Tim tend to create beautiful however strange relationships between the characters, as he focuses on the connection of friendships between characters such as the mad hatter and the Cheshire cat as even though they are frenemies the friendship is strong as Cheshire saves the mad hatters life however this could be because of the Disney standards and rules within the films.
Tim Burton is to direct the upcoming live action 'Dumbo' however what can we expect from Tim Burton's style to re-create the story of the classic Disney animation of Dumbo a flying elephant we can expect Dumbo the elephant to be the CGI main character however how far will Tim expand this.
During my research on Tim Burton I will be focusing on his early
career with Disney and how it eventually developed over a period of time for
them to collaborate, with Tim's unique style of characters that are big eyed,
use of low key lighting and the contrast of blacks, grey and white of
Burton's own fantasy world of creations and how Tim's unique style can
contribute to Disney and what it can offer in the future.
