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Following his high school graduation, Burton won a scholarship to attend the Walt Disney founded California Institute of the Arts to study animation. Burton did not... enjoy animation and after working on The Fox and the Hound, the studio decided to make better use of his talents and made him a conceptual artist. He did early work on 1985's The Black Cauldron which did not meet Disney's ideals and the work was scrapped. He also wrote and directed the comedy Frankenweenie about a boy who reanimates his dog after it is hit and killed by a car. The film was shelved due to Disney's concern about the film being too scary for children but was released overseas and later on video. Early short works included the short horror pic The Island of Doctor Agor, Doctor of Doom, Stalk of the Celery,Hansel and Gretel and the animated short Vincent in which a young boy fantasizes that he is Vincent Price, Burton's idol.
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In 1976 Burton won a scholarship for the California Institute of the Arts, a college founded by Walt Disney. He decided that animation was what he wanted to do and in 1979 he began working, as an animator on the studio's "The Fox and the Hound". Burton struggled with the work he was given; drawing a sweet fox for many years he became very downhearted. This was not what he had aspirations for when he joined Disney.
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Burton's preoccupation with death and monsters was evident from the start. His drawing talent won him a scholarship to nearby CalArts, founded by Walt and Roy Disney. After that, he landed a job as an animator, working on Disney classics like "The Fox and the Hounds."
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Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an eccentric film director known for his off-beat and quirky style. His films often portray a highly stylized world visually reminiscent of cartoons which could be the result of his beginnings as a Disney animator. One of his most famous works is The Nightmare Before Christmas, a fun children's animated film.
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In November 2007, Burton signed a deal with Disney to direct two 3-D films. The first will be a motion capture adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which is currently in pre-production. It will start filming in May 2008. Afterwards, he will remake Frankenweenie as a stop-motion film.[6] John August has announced that he will start writing a live action film and a stop-motion film for Burton as soon as the writers' strike is over.[7]
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After leaving the California Institute of the Arts in 1979, Burton went to work as an apprentice animator at Disney. Here, he came face to face with the reality of working in the animation industry. He recalled being "strapped to a table all day, and you have to draw. I just flipped out." Working with animator Glen Keane on The Fox and Hound (1979), he realized his visual sense was different from the Disney norm; he "couldn't even fake the Disney style." His then developed character sketches for The Black Cauldron (1980), none of which were used.
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