Henry Selick studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel.
10 Facts About Henry Selick
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Henry Selick graduated from Rumson-Fair Haven High School in 1970.
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Henry Selick became a full-fledged animator under Glen Keane on The Fox and the Hound.
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Years later, Henry Selick claimed he learned a lot to improve his drawing, animation, and storytelling skills from Disney legend Eric Larson.
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In February 2006, Henry Selick left the project, to work on Coraline for Laika.
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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.
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In 2010, Henry Selick joined with Pixar and The Walt Disney Company in a long-term contract to exclusively produce stop-motion films.
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Henry Selick later revealed in interviews that the film suffered from interference from the then CCO of Pixar John Lasseter, who Henry Selick claimed came in and constantly changed elements of the script and production that ended up ballooning the budget.
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On October 16,2013, Henry Selick announced a live-action film adaptation of Adam Gidwitz's children's novel A Tale Dark and Grimm.
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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.