Selick goes back to the House of Mouse

The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline director Henry Selick is implanting himself once more into Disney, but this time as a some what permanent resident. Selick made a deal with Disney/Pixar and will be making stop motion animated features for them, however long the contract is expected to last.

Selick has always been working in and out with the Disney family for quite some time, ever since his widely popular stop-motion animated feature A Nightmare Before Christmas hit it big in 1993 and still continues to create revenue. Here’s a bit more on Selick’s brief viewpoint on the sudden deal from Variety.:

“I’ll quote Dick Cook right after ‘James and the Giant Peach’ was finished. He said, ‘We don’t believe this is a viable medium anymore, and we’re not going to do it,’?” Selick told Daily Variety. “A few years later they shut down 2D. It’s great that both of those things are back.”

The animation department in Disney has always been particularly strong, especially within the last twenty to twenty five years. Between their Disney golden age of 2D animation to the emergence of Pixar, they’ve always managed to have a constant firm hold on the medium. What do you think of this deal?