I found the picture to be consistently pristine, vibrant with supreme and constantly-present levels of dimension and depth. The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around four hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion. Ken Page as Oogie Boogie, a villainous bogeyman in Halloween Town, who has a passion for gambling and rivalry with Jack.

With the critical success of Vincent that same year, Burton began to consider developing the film as either a short film or a half-hour television special, to no avail. On August 26, 2008, Disney re-issued Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in a 3-disc Collector's Edition DVD. On the DVD: This edition is a must for all Burton fans with the biggest gem to be found on a DVD release--"Tim Burtons Early Films" which holds his first two works.Roger Ebert praised the film's visual inventiveness: "One of the many pleasures of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is that there is not a single recognizable landscape in it. The Concept: Jack-o'-Santa : Tim Burton's new movie for Disney isn't exactly a steal-Christmas-kind-of-thing.

He created concept art and storyboards for the project in collaboration with Rick Heinrichs, who also sculpted character models; [21] [22] Burton later showed his and Heinrichs' works-in-progress to Henry Selick, also a Disney animator at the time. Frankenweenie” (29:50), my favorite of the two, is a live-action film from 1984, featuring Barret Oliver, Shelly Duvall, and Daniel Stern (better known as one half of the Wet Bandits). On July 19, 2023, Disney announced that it is partnering with Dynamite Entertainment to publish new comics based on the film, with the first project being written by Torunn Grønbekk. After completing his short film Vincent in 1982, [17] Burton, who was then employed at Walt Disney Feature Animation, wrote a three-page poem titled The Nightmare Before Christmas, drawing inspiration from television specials of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Animated musical fantasy set in a parallel world where different lands represent different holiday periods.Perhaps those reviewers didn't watch the 3D film in the best environment, which for me requires the room to be dark ? This product has both Blu-ray 'versions' in it, and (when compared to the Special Edition DVD I own) adds a new commentary track on the 3D disc, adding Tim Burton/Danny Elfman but removing Frustrated, Jack isolates himself in his house and studies Christmas further, intent upon finding a way to rationally explain it ("Jack's Obsession").