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Skellington Productions was an American animation studio and production company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films.
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Skellington Productions was a company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Animation Studios and directors Tim Burton & Henry Selick. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films.
Tim Burton and Henry Selick formed the company in 1986 as Burton/Selick Projects, where Tim Burton could direct episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, while Henry Selick could focus on doing animation. After producing award-winning animation for MTV, Ritz, Pillsbury, and more, Tim Burton left to work on Beetlejuice (1988), so Selick renamed the studio to Selick Projects.
In September 1992, Tim Burton returned Selick's studio, renamed it Skellington Productions, and sold it to Disney. The first film produced by Skellington Productions (which gave the company its namesake), The Nightmare Before Christmas, was released theatrically in 1993 under Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner to an extremely positive response and box office, becoming a sleeper hit. Since 2006, The Nightmare Before Christmas has been re-released by Walt Disney Pictures and in Disney Digital 3-D format.
The second and final film, James and the Giant Peach, released to theaters in 1996 while Pathe distributed the film outside the US. It also met with positive reviews but failed to make a suitable profit and lead to the studio shutting down.
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Aug 25, 2011 · Incident at Skellington Productions. The Nightmare Before Christmas was created at a nondescript warehouse building in San Francisco known as Skellington Productions. It was a complete stop-motion movie production facility - a joint venture between Tim Burton and the Walt Disney Company.
May 19, 2017 · Skellington Productions was a joint venture between Disney and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop-motion animation and through its short life, produced two films.
Dec 23, 2021 · Meanwhile, a team of 120 animators, puppet fabricators, camera operators, and more moved into San Francisco Studios — later renamed Skellington Productions — in July of 1991, with production...
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Oct 15, 2023 · Skellington Productions was an American animation studio and production company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films. [1]
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Sep 4, 2018 · In order to make the ambitious film, Selick assembled a group of collaborators in a studio space in San Francisco – the purpose-built Skellington Productions – which had the added benefit of ...
