Tim Burton resurrected stop-motion animated films in the ’90s with The Nightmare Before Christmas, and later, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie. Even before that, one of his first short films he directed as a young animator at Disney was a stop-motion film called Vincent, about a boy obsessed with Vincent Price. Now, in the first chapter of Wednesday season two, we get Burton’s first new stop-motion film in a decade, as a 90-second short within that episode. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it took a whopping eight months to complete. Mackinnon & Saunders, the same company behind Corpse Bride, returned to work with Burton, creating puppets and tiny sets.
Burton’s mini movie tells the story (via flashback) of a Nevermore Academy student who replaces his own human heart with a clockwork heart. Much like the main character in Vincent, he looks more than a little bit like Tim Burton himself. The Wednesday showrunners confirmed to us that the stop-motion segment was actually their idea, and not Burton’s. Originally, this was a standard voiceover live-action flashback. But with Burton directing, they wanted something more in line with his sensibilities. Luckily, Tim Burton was clearly happy to return to his roots for this portion of the episode. Here’s what he had to say:
I loved it. This is the kind of a show where we get to play around with things, and that was special to me. In fact, kind of went old school with it and I ended up designing the puppet. I remember doing Vincent, and [we tried to go] back to the first thing I did. … I kept having to tell the animators, ‘No, it’s looking too good. No, the animation’s too slick. We need to pretend like I’m back in my student days and do it like I did it in the beginning.
Does this mean a bigger return to stop-motion for Tim Burton? Perhaps not, since this 90-second sequence took almost a year to finish. But given the pop culture longevity of The Nightmare Before Christmas, maybe it’s worth it to invest the time and money into it. In the meantime, you can watch Burton’s return to stop-motion filmmaking in Wednesday’s second season, currently streaming on Netflix.
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