Thursday, 14 January 2010

Non web designer 3

Tim Burton
I'm not entirely sure if Time Burton counts as a designer or not, but I have chosen to do him anyway. Ever since a young age I have loved The Nightmare Before Christmas... I know... but how the whole thing looks is absolutely amazing! Again, like Vivienne Westwood, I like the fact that you can tell apart all of his animated films and short from anything else, yet they still don't quite have the exact same feel all the time.
As we learnt last year, he was not the first to use the style that he does, the sort of twisted and strangely shaped look. Yet his is still vastly different to those which influenced him, and you would never mistake one for the other.
Being a fan of MOST of Burton's work, I fell that it will influence the work I produce by trying to stylise some aspects of it based on his work. This will only be done where it is necessary and applicable though. It's not as if I'm going to go out of my way just to get a minor reference to him in.
Tim Burton manages to make some incredible films, but most couldn't more different from each other (apart from the animated films), for example, Big Fish and Batman Returns, two of my favourites of his. And even though he seems to have a bit of an unhealthy crush or relationship with Jonny Dep, I will be looking forward to and influenced by his films for years to come. I should think that this will show in some pieces of my work also.

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