Henry Selick

Biography

Born 11/30/1952

This Disney-trained stop-motion animation specialist worked successfully in advertising and "personal" short subjects before making a triumphant feature directorial debut with the popular and playfully macabre "Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'" (1993). Selick became a Disney animator...
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  • In 2008, Directed the first three-dimensional stop-motion animation film, "Coraline"; the first feature by LAIKA studios
  • In 2005, Directed LAIKA's first computer-generated animated short, "Moongirl"
  • In 2004, Joined the Portland based animation studio, LAIKA as supervising director for feature film development

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