“I knew the moment would be visually defining,” says Coraline writer-director Henry Selick when I ask him about ... like how red flowers draw hummingbirds.” Despite its change in hue ...

Stop-motion animator and director Henry Selick has had a pretty momentous past few months with two of his biggest movies, Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas, reaching major milestones.

produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. In many ways, stop-motion is older than the medium of film itself. Before the celluloid film base was introduced in 1888, inventions like the ...