The stop motion director who directed "Coraline" also co-directed "James and The Giant Peach" with what male director?
Henry Selick Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "James and the Giant Peach" and "Coraline". He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel.
Rankin/Bass Productions Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd.) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation. The pre-1974 library is owned by Universal Studios (via DreamWorks Animation/DreamWorks Classics), while the post-1973 library is owned by Warner Bros. Rankin/Bass stop-motion features are recognisable by their visual style of doll-like characters with spheroid body parts, and ubiquitous powdery snow using an animation technique called "Animagic". Often, traditional cel animation scenes of falling snow would be projected over the action to create the effect of a snowfall.