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Born: August 25, 1958 in Burbank California.

To inspire his drawings Burton would invite his brother, Daniel, over and they would set up different murder scenes to prank the neighbors, their terror would inspire his early sketches. And it also explains how the police were involved twice with an axe murder setup, those fiascoes inspired years of drawing ideas.

Burton spent most of his time sitting in his room drawing, his images mostly appeared dark and mysterious.

College and Early Workings

His biggest influences were Victor Price and Edgar Allen Poe. He loved Price's horror films and mainly spent his Friday nights watching them.

Upon getting what he thought was to be his dream job he struggled and had a hard time fitting in where he was most needed. Burton then drew the Fox in the animation Fox and the Hound but struggled along they way because it was not his style; it was a style that he could not grasp. " His bosses at Walt Disney called his animations weird. He spent the next two years at Disney hiding under his desk, sketching dark visions" (Howell).

While studying at CalArts Burton was told "That's not really the way you draw. You should draw like this" (Howell). Burton took that and learned to use the negative criticism to proceed drawing in his own style.

Burton made many shorts while working for Disney but his first full movie was Pee-Wee's Big Adventure in 1985.

Burton's Biggest Success'

"Exhibit curator Ron Magliozzi says the "Burtonesque" style is instantly recognizable: fables, fairy tales and fantasies, with an aesthetic fusing Gothic, Grand Guignol and German expressionism" (Puente). "....the most comprehensive ever at MoMA devoted to a filmmaker, including more than 700 examples of Burton's sketchbooks, drawings, paintings, photographs and amateur films, as well as a retrospective screening of his films over a 27-year career" (Puente).

Burton has pieces in New York's Museum of Modern Arts. "Burton is an uncompromised visionary -- a modern auteur," he writes in a museum essay. In an interview, he says: "Everyone knows a Burton piece when they see it. He has both a mass and a cult following"(Puente).

Burton started writing The Nightmare Before Christmas at twenty-four years of age, and the whole time he had the idea of stop motion for it- nothing would change his mind.

Other big success' include stop-motions The Corpse Bride, and Coroline. His best live action movies include Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Big Fish, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, the remake of Planet of the Apes, and the remake of Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.

Frankenweenie was a a different story on its own. Burton finally having the hope that his creations would be produced and seen by others he worked towards his happy ending. Within the month before the viewing of his newest creation, Disney rated this production too twisted for their younger viewers and left it on the shelf.

A few interesting facts

In the remade film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Willy Wonka's cane was filled to the top with nerds candy and everything in the factory was edible.

"The Nightmare before Christmas" took three years to produce the seventy-six minute film, and a week to produce only one minute of usable film.

Burton is happily married to Helena Bonham Carter who gave him his two children Billy Raymond Burton and Nell Burton.

Johnny Depp has been in eight of Burton’s films which Burton believes him to be a good luck charm in his films. This is Burtons only good luck charm he also wears pinstriped socks to every premiere and special occasions.

In Batman Returns , Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman costume had to be vacuum sealed once she put it on.

Jack the skeleton first appeared in Beetlejuice, his head can be seen atop the carnal hat.

Burton and his wife live in two different houses connected by a grand hallway, in 2010 they purchased a third house for the nanny and there two kids.

How does burton qualify as an outlier?

"Ten thousand hours is the number for greatness" (Gladwell 41).

Burton has put at least ten thousand hours into his work since the beginning, working for Disney plus his drawings as a child. Plus each stop motion movie takes years to complete. As a director and artist Burton definitely qualifies for Gladwell's ten thousand hour theory.

On top of the ten thousand hour theory the way Burton was raised also contributes to him being an outlier.

Growing up Burton's family was part of the middle-class and as Lareau says in "Outliers" the middle-class parenting style is "Concerted cultivation." "It's an attempt to actively "foster and assess a child's talents, opinions and skills" (Gladwell 104).

Burton was on baseball teams as a child since his dad had retired from the minor leagues, baseball was a big deal in the Burton household. While Burton did not particularly enjoy being on the team it taught him how to be on one and communicate with people which will pay off when he enters his line of work. Plus with parents and eventually his grandma taking care of him and not just letting him grow on his own he learned the skills necessary to tell his professors and bosses at Disney that he was going to draw how he wanted to which got him to be as successful and loved as he is now.

Works cited

Gladwell's, Malcolm. Outliers. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Print.

Toronto, Star. "How Burton turned no' into art." Toronto Star (Canada) n.d.: Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

"Window to Tim Burton's quirky mind opens." USA Today n.d.: MAS Ultra- School Edition. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

As a child Burton's parents boarded up his windows.

He never asked why and lost his chance once his parents died. He then moved in with his grandma at the age of thirteen.

Tim Burton: Film Director, Artist, Outlier

By: Cheyenne Darrow and Alexus Thompson

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