Tim Burton
Tim Burton was born in 1958 on the 25 August in California. In his early life Burton used to make short animation films using 'crude stop motion animation techniques', and made his first recognisable film when he was 13 years old.
Burton studied at Burbank High School however didn't do to well at school so then later moved on to California Institute of the Arts to study character animation. After Burbank he attended and later graduated from CalArts in Santa Clarita, California in 1979. During this time he made a short film 'The Stalk of the Celery' this film attracted to the attention of Walt Disney's production company who hired him as an animator.
In 1984 Burton released one of his first live action film shorts Frankenweenie, it was filmed in black and white and resulted in Burton being fired from Disney. Disney said the reason for Burton being fired was that he was "spending the company's resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see."With this event Tim Burton took the opportunity to peruse his dream to make a feature film, so he approached Griffin Dunne to direct the black comedy 'After Hours'. After this success Burton moved on to other projects such as 'Bettle Juice' and 'Batman' (1989)
During the 1990's Burton had succes with many films as a director and sometimes as a co-writer these films were 'Edward Scissorhands', 'Mars Attacks!' and 'Sleepy Hollow' and more. More recently Burton has directed such films as 'Planet of the Apes' and 'Sweeney Todd'.
Aardman
Aardman is a British animation company that is famous
for their stop motion animations; these are usually Claymation’s there most
well known ones include Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and many more.
Aardman was
founded Peter Lord and David Sproxton and are still there the main heads of the
company. Before 1997 Aardman
one they’re first Oscar for the short film Creature Comforts.
The first full-length
feature film that Aardman created was Chicken Run, for which they joined up
with DreamWorks, however this wasn’t released till June 23rd 2000
although being in post production since 1997.
Aardman signed a
deal with Dream Works to make 4 films in an estimated 12 years. The films they
made in these twelve years were Chicken Run, Wallac
The Brothers Quay
The Brothers Quay were twin brothers, Stephen and Timothy, who were born in 1947. The brothers are recognised for being two of the most influential stop-motion animators of all time. They both attended the Philadelphia College of Art where they studied illustration this lead them to further their education and experience at the Royal College of Art, in London, England. At the Royal College of Art is where the brothers made their first short films, which unfortunately were damaged beyond repair meaning that no copy still exists. However there work at the college was not all in vain as it was here they met Keith Griffiths, a fellow student at the college. The Brothers and Griffiths went on the work together and create Koninck Studios, which is based in Southwark, London to this day.
The brothers' are influenced by a tradition of Eastern European animation, They have a unique and creepy animation style that is instantly recognizable. The Brothers and best known for their film "Street of Crocodiles": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqmXK1pf7YThe brothers have also directed some TV commercials for companies such as: MTV, Nikon, Slurpee. In 2012 the Brothers were honored with a career retrospective gallery exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Stephen Quay describes him and his brothers work as "dark fairy tales with elements of grotesquery and the pathological." While his brother Timothy Quay adds "We set them in a twilight world, midway between sleep and wakefulness." This dark, surreal style of animation is a rarity in the world of animation and has therefore influenced the likes of Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. Gilliam recently selected the brothers film "Street of Crocodiles" as one of the ten best animated films of all time.
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