Henry selick biography and filmography

All All. Sign In. Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised in Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. He became fascinated with animation at a young age, after viewing two specific films.

It was one of the earliest animated feature films the first had been released in , the first produced in Europe, and the earliest one that has been preserved. The other film was the live-action film "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" , which featured stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. Selick started his college studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he studied science.

Two of his student films won so-called "Student Academy Awards", awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for promising student films. In the s, after completing his college studies, Selick was hired by Walt Disney Productions, the animation studio of the Disney corporation.

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He started his career there as an in-betweener, generating intermediate images for key frames in animated works. This is typically a low-level position at the animation department and the work goes uncredited. At Disney, he started working as an animator trainee, one of several trainees under an aging crew of directors and supervisors.

His first uncredited high-profile works was as part of the animation crew in the feature film "Pete's Dragon" and the featurette "The Small One"