The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween-Christmas film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.
Allan Neuwirth
Though involved in feature films, Neuwirth continued to work in animated television as an artist and writer. He drew storyboards for commercials and TV series, including Cartoon Network's "Courage the Cowardly Dog". In 2011, he wrote the Hallmark Channel’s stop-motion Christmas special, "Jingle All the Way", In 2012, he wrote the screenplay for the sequel, "Jingle & Bell’s Christmas Star", and the animated short film "Polariffic" (2014), also for the Hallmark Channel. "Polariffic" was nominated for Best Animated Special Production at the 42nd Annual Annie Awards, and selected by the 2015 Annecy Film Festival. Neuwirth was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program," for a 2014 episode of "Cyberchase".