Henry Selick

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q514859: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as craft. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: The Fox and the Hound (1981); The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Count them as director (7 films), writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Tim Burton: 2 lines

  1. people (people) · them, directly: Tim Burton ⇒ Henry Selick (the maker said so: Selick's quote in the dossier ("Tim's egg")). Selick says the film began as Burton's idea and he was the one who finished it.
    “it was Tim's egg, but I was the one who hatched it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:49:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (artwork source) · them, directly: Tim Burton ⇒ Henry Selick (the host's read). Nightmare Before Christmas brought Burton's artwork to life; Peach got Lane Smith; Coraline Tadahiro Uesugi; Wendell & Wild Pablo Lobato.
    “Zalek is kind of bringing the artwork of Tim Burton to life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: The Adventures of Prince Achmed ⇒ Henry Selick (the maker said so: Selick cites them as his inspirations). Selick cites Prince Achmed and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as inspirations.
    “the Adventures of Prince Ahmed in the 7th Voyage of Sinbad”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:39:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which they worked on as storyboarded the Scooby-Doo ending (Oogie Boogie as Finkelstein in disguise), not used: Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⇒ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the host's read). Katzenberg was looking at Roger Rabbit's success as a reason to try different styles and techniques.
    “looking at the success they had with Roger Rabbit and saying, like, we should try different styles”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:29:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

James and the Giant Peach (1996): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which they worked on as storyboarded the Scooby-Doo ending (Oogie Boogie as Finkelstein in disguise), not used: The Nightmare Before Christmas ⇒ James and the Giant Peach (the host's read). The film's long tail made Disney try stop motion again, back to back with Peach, before Laika and others.
    “James and the Giant Peach is almost made like right back to back with this movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:40:45 · Michael Rianda (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (17) everyone in directing

Craft (3) everyone in craft

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Henry Selick → Monkeybone. Selick's blank check Monkeybone is the feature closest to his experimental shorts.
    “Monkey Bone, which is his biggest, like, blank check or whatever, is the one that's most like those short films”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:18:23 · Michael Rianda (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Henry Selick → Tim Burton. Burton said Selick was the only CalArts student who moved between the experimental and character-animation camps.
    “Burton said that Selleck was the only guy in his time who actually coexisted between the 2 camps.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:20:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Henry Selick → Eric Larson. Selick worked under Larson and Keane at Disney.
    “he worked at Disney works under Eric Larson and Glenn Keane, big Legends of the Field”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:41:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Henry Selick → Glen Keane. Selick worked under Larson and Keane at Disney.
    “works under Eric Larson and Glenn Keane, big Legends of the Field”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:41:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Danny Elfman → Henry Selick. Elfman singing Jack while Sarandon speaks caused a long rift between Selick and Elfman.
    “this like caused a rift between Selleck and Elfman that like lasted for forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Henry Selick → Richard Williams. Selick's insistence on live-action camera moves is like Williams hand-drawing his camera movement.
    “much like Richard Williams being like, I'll fucking hand draw the camera movement”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Phil Tippett → Henry Selick. Tippett, Vinton and Selick are grouped as stop-motion animators of different temperaments who all drop into a Zen flow state while animating.
    “Phil Tippett, Will Vinton, Henry Selleck. They're all different types of people.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:00:05 · David Sims or Griffin Newman (unclear) (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Henry Selick → Seepage. Selick's early work and later films recurrently use shadows and silhouettes, as in Prince Achmed.
    “that is like a recurring thing through Celic's movies where he's constantly using shadows”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:40:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Henry Selick → The Nightmare Before Christmas. Selick's own rule: the stranger the imagery, the straighter the story.
    “The commercial rule for me is the stranger, the imagery, the straighter, the story.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:38:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (3)

  1. industry (parallel Disney deals): Guillermo del Toro → Henry Selick. Disney gave del Toro a spooky-movie imprint and Selick his own animation studio, investing in artists to form new Pixars.
    “And there was that Gimbla Toro Disney double dare you where they were like, we're giving you your own imprint to make spooky movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:45:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (studio-notes buffer): Jordan Peele → Henry Selick. Peele was good at dealing with studio notes and calming Selick down.
    “He was really good at dealing with studio notes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:03:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (studio-notes buffer): Tim Burton → Henry Selick. Burton played the calming intermediary on Nightmare and, less so, James and the Giant Peach; Monkeybone had no such figure.
    “Burton doing that for him to a far lesser degree on the 2nd movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:03:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (artwork source): Henry Selick → Tim Burton. Nightmare Before Christmas brought Burton's artwork to life; Peach got Lane Smith; Coraline Tadahiro Uesugi; Wendell & Wild Pablo Lobato.
    “Zalek is kind of bringing the artwork of Tim Burton to life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Henry Selick → The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Selick cites Prince Achmed and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as inspirations.
    “the Adventures of Prince Ahmed in the 7th Voyage of Sinbad”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:39:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Henry Selick → Charles Addams. Selick thought kids would love Burton's work the way they love Charles Addams.
    “I thought that people, especially kids would love his work in the way they love Charles Adams”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:10:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Joe Ranft → Henry Selick. Ranft, Selick and Burton were CalArts contemporaries alongside the Pixar founders.
    “Bird, the Pixar guys, you know, Joe Ramped, Selleck Burton, all there at the same time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:20:30 · Michael Rianda (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Henry Selick → Tim Burton. Selick says the film began as Burton's idea and he was the one who finished it.
    “it was Tim's egg, but I was the one who hatched it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:49:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Henry Selick. Jack's arc is read as the animators themselves trying to make commercial art.
    “how much Jack is an analog for these guys trying to figure out how to make commercial art”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:52:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (shadow): Henry Selick → Tim Burton. A host says Burton's name overshadows Selick; people hear Nightmare Before Christmas and assume it is Burton's.
    “It does really feel like the Burton thing is a shadow.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:04:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (takeover fallout): Will Vinton → Henry Selick. After Vinton was pushed out of Will Vinton Studios by Nike's Knight, the company (Laika) went after Selick.
    “They go after Henry Selleck, who's like the other giant stop motion, at least in America, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:42:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (creative conflict): John Lasseter → Henry Selick. Selick blames Lasseter's constant changes for budget creep that killed The Shadow King.
    “John Lassiter couldn't help himself.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:47:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (freedom made best film): Coraline → Henry Selick. Coraline was made with Laika hands-off, and it is his best film, so maybe studio notes are not needed.
    “It does seem like he was pretty unfettered, and that is his best film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:03:53 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Henry Selick: Everyone hearing the name asks who; he is just the Nightmare Before Christmas guy, then people say Tim Burton.
    “And I'd be like, he's the guy who did Nightmare before Christmas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:04:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Henry Selick: Selick on Burton: five set visits in two years, 8 to 10 hours total; 'it was like me adapting a book that was never actually written.'
    “it was like me adapting a book that was never actually written.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:49:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Henry Selick: 1994 Sight and Sound quote read to close: audiences are more open than Hollywood imagines; the stranger the imagery, the straighter the story.
    “But the audience is more open than Hollywood imagines.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:37:57 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)