I remember the first time I saw stop motion animation was when I was little kid and they would replay Gumby cartoons on TV. I remembered how life like the characters seemed in comparison to their 2D counterparts. Their physical appearance seemed to add as much to their character as their personalities did. I also remember every year at Christmas they would play Will Vinton’s “A Claymation Christmas” that my family and I would all watch together. My dad and I particularly enjoyed it and it is a tradition that we still hold to today. Some years later “The Nightmare Before Christmas” was released and I fell in love all over again. I wanted to learn as much as I could about how this amazing art was created. I watched every behind the scenes and read every book I could find on the making of this magical movie. I knew this is what I wanted to do with life, I wanted to be a stop motion animator.