The Importance Of Animation In Tim Burton's Films

In his best-selling book Burton on Burton, Tim Burton wrote on his style of animation:

“I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.”

Burton is best known for his frequency in using claymation, a form of stop-motion animation in which clay puppets are slightly altered from frame to frame then ran together to create a seamless line of movement for animation, which leads the public to believe his films are dark or creepy yet, most cultivate their own cult following creating notably classic films with fandoms (a large group of fans for a specific work, typically found throughout the internet) and multiple parody scenes found in the media. A running list of elements are synonymous with a Tim Burton film such as color schemes in a gray-scale, his tendencies toward Johnny Depp and wife Helena Bonham Carter as characters in his films, his workings with composer Danny …show more content…
By using color tones found in gray-scale during the alive scenes, Burton is able to convey a theme of expectations not meeting reality. During the scenes where Victor is alive, one would typically assume that the color scheme would be multichromatic and bright to illustrate joy and esprit. However, Burton chose to break typical schemas of coloration by implementing a gray-scale normally associated with lividity and mortem. Early in the film, Victor and Victoria are rehearsing for their wedding which normally would be seen as a joyous, colorful event; except in this scene the audience is forced into a state of cognitive dissonance (when the stimuli brought into the brain disproves something the brain already knew to be true) due to the visual display being dark and