Vincent, by Tim Burton (1982) critique

Vincent, by Tim Burton (1982) critique
Tim Burton filmographyFrom http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/.1. Frankenweenie (2011) (pre-production) (producer) 2. Alice in Wonderland (2010) (producer) 3. 9 (2009/I) (producer)4. Corpse Bride (2005) (producer) 5. The World of Stain boy (2000) (producer) 6. Lost in Oz (2000) (TV) (executive producer) 7. Mars Attacks! (1996) (producer)8. James and the Giant Peach (1996) (producer)9. Batman Forever (1995) (producer)10. Ed Wood (1994) (producer)11. Cabin Boy (1994) (producer)12. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (produced by)
13. Batman Returns (1992) (producer)14. Edward Scissor hands (1990) (producer) 15. Luau (1982) (producer) 16. Stalk of the Celery (1979) (producer)
Early on in his film career he was successful by almost unimaginable good luck, but it's his skills and originality that have kept him a big successful animator. Tim Burton started drawing young and went on to study at California institute of arts studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney, which he went on to work with however he found that the mainstream Disney films he worked for (The Fox and the Hound (1981))this was very much out of his comfort zone so Disney let him have the freedom to make his own personal projects, the six-minute animated black-and-white Gothic Vincent Price tribute Vincent (1982), and the 27-minute live-action Frankenweenie (1984), they were both considered unsuitable for children and both were never released. After this Tim Burton left Disney to become one of the biggest and most well known animators ever with his work being a large part of our day to day culture. One of his biggest influences was Vincent price and films.Like most of Tim burtons work Vincent was focused on a misunderstood outcast. This animation was on the topic of banishment, loneliness, identity, childhood and insanity expressed in a very poetic way. Personally i enjoyed “Vincent” and the way he narrated it with a very low voiced poem and didn’t even need to use speaking to show what was going on. I also enjoyed his typical style of exaggerated body parts and cloths etc and the feel of the dynamics of dark and light he uses.Vincent was made with stop motion and clay motion animation techniques and was Tim Burtons first stop motion film. Stop motion is frame by frame animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. Each frame (photo) the object would move very slightly so after tons of frame together it would give a very smooth illusion that the object is moving on its own.Something Tim Burton is very good at is bringing a gothic dark film into a child friendly audience. Vincent was a mix of styles such as gothic, dark, black humour, fatalistic, deranged and childish with a comic look. I think Vincent is done very well as it has more depth than just an animation as it uses contrasts of light and dark to spread the real world from Vincent Malloy’s imagination.I think for Burton, Vincent was a chance to express himself and show people what he is and how he likes to work after his failure with Disney. I also think it was chance for Tim to present himself as Vincent as a outsider artist (He makes Vincent come across as a artist by showing with quill and easel). it was his first chance to express his real gothic style to everyone and started off his whole career later going on to do Frankenweenie.The audience and critics loved Vincent especially the fact he got Vincent price one of the biggest horror actors that lived. Vincent himself said that the film “was the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality–better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard”. Even after this Disney still refused to show it. The film was the start of Tim burtons work which now is nationally acclaimed and is a large part of many cultures.