By now, most faithful fans of Wednesday have binge-watched part 1 of the latest season to completion. One of the highlights was a stop-motion sequence called The Tale of the Skull Tree which brought back strong memories of past Burton films including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie.
The team at Netflix has just released a video, which can be seen below, that shows how the creative team brought the iconic stop-motion animation sequence in Season 2 to life.
In speaking with Vanity Fair, Tim Burton talked about his love of stop-motion saying “The first movie I ever remember seeing was Jason and the Argonauts. So I was a stop-motion fan from the very beginning of my life. And I grew up with the Rankin and Bass [shows], like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Burton studied the process at CalArts as an animation student. As a Disney apprentice, he made 1982’s Vincent, a stop-motion tale told in rhyme about a young boy who is obsessed with horror-movie icon Vincent Price. (Price himself agreed to narrate it.)
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