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
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