12 Facts About Henry Selick

Henry Selick graduated from Rumson-Fair Haven High School in 1970.

Henry Selick studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts under the guidance of Jules Engel.

Henry Selick worked on commercials, including working on the stop-motion animation for the Pillsbury Doughboy for some of the Pillsbury Company commercials.

Years later, Henry Selick claimed he learned a lot to improve his drawing, animation, and storytelling skills from Disney legend Eric Larson.

Henry Selick later admitted his unhappiness with the final product and has since vowed to never make another live-action film again.

In February 2006, Henry Selick left the project, to work on Coraline for Laika.

Henry Selick, who kept in contact with Anderson, said the director would act out scenes in Fantastic Mr Fox while in Paris and send them to the animators via iPhone.

In 2010, Henry Selick joined with Pixar and The Walt Disney Company in a long-term contract to exclusively produce stop-motion films.

Henry Selick revealed in 2022 that the film suffered from interference from then-CCO of Pixar John Lasseter, who he claimed came in and constantly changed elements of the script and production that ended up ballooning the budget.

On October 16,2013, Henry Selick announced a live-action film adaptation of Adam Gidwitz's children's novel A Tale Dark and Grimm.

In June 2017, Henry Selick was reported to direct the pilot and subsequent episodes of a Little Nightmares TV adaptation produced by the Russo brothers.

In June 2024, it was announced that Henry Selick was developing a stop-motion film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane, as well as reviving The Shadow King as a graphic novel.