Henry Selick on Coraline and his love of stop-motion animation | BFI in Conversation

[@GenesGamingCorner]

After all these years of being a fan of his work, I was always curious as to why I've never seen an interview with the guy. Seeing this interview (and being an animator myself) I now understand why: you can see by his body language at just how introverted and shy this guy is! He's the kind of guy whose in his own head and closes his eyes when he talks - which is exactly how me and my animator friends talk in real life! The guy is an enormous talent - I don't think anyone can argue that. But, now that I've actually heard the man speak - and can put a face on the work that he's done - it makes me feel even closer to his work than ever before! I hope he continues to get the creative freedom he needs to make more amazing work!

[@AIOctober]

Absolute joy being in the audience for this, it was the hottest day of the year in London but braving the tempretures was worth it. Great guy, as talented as he is sharp. The clips from the cancelled movie were crazy surprises too.

[@TED_Frames]

Ditto, mate!

[@MMoffatWrites]

Henry Selick is unique, he practically invented modern stop motion animation with new technology, and he keeps improving on it. He created a huge company to make movie studios take stop motion seriously. It takes so long to make stop motion movies, I'm impressed with the patience and curiosity that keeps it going for that long. Henry Selick movies have a distinctive style that is calming yet unpredictable. Henry Selick moves himself very much like his puppets, he's an animated person in another sense. Ever since I was a young teenager I always hoped I could meet Henry Selick. I used to draw him... not his characters... him. I hoped he could see my photos or read my fiction story. Henry Selick seemed so unreal to me. Now I'm older I understand most artists and innovators are ordinary people trapped in an environment where people don't understand them, and they are using art to express themselves. The more you have to use art, the better you get at making it.

[@chadstephens88]

I feel like if Tim Burton had more of Henry’s aesthetic and ‘approachable’ every-man mentality (and shedded his rockstar filmmaker image entirely) he could have become so great.

[@callmethecommentcountess9329]

I loved his movie

[@ashleysmith2512]

big fan of his work or anyone who masters the art of stop motion, wish for more to come. i wish we would get edward scissorhands in stop motion also 1982 vincent short film made into full movie in stop motion with parts of movie having the audio of vincent price in it. on a side note as a gamer i hope we could get a stop motion open world turn based rpg , the characters motioned through the whole world, motions and action. than have code for every move/action so if character runs forward in game those series of code motions put together that action motion via all motions left, right and turns and turn based battles would be easier the only motion of characters is attacks/spells no walking around i think the first stop motion turn based rpg would be a game changer detailed world and characters but still have that stop motion model look. hope this idea can become reality i think it would be faster to make game in stop motion than standard realtime graphics games . thumbs up and comment if you would like game in stop motion. shane acker/tim burton 9 movie 2009 would be a great start for stop motion game most is already designed all have to add is attack actions/spells and ideas to collect and some extra landscaping to add to original set world.

[@SimonWitham]

Absolutely great - Cheers

[@shakeemwinn3647]

Great discussion about Henry's career. It's just too bad his sinuses were kicking his ass.