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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas, TIME looks at the amazing animated films that inspired and followed the stop-motion classic._ by [Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter Feb 3, 2016 7:03 AM UTC by [Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter Feb 3, 2016 7:03 AM UTC The South by Southwest Film Festival has announced its 2016 lineup. This year’s slate will include 137 features, with 89 world premieres across 12 sections, including Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Headliners, Midnighters and Episodic. “We look for different types of voices and different people making the films,” Janet Pierson, head of SXSW Film, told _The Hollywood Reporter_ on Tuesday_._ “There are many different layers of criteria, but what has to happen is you have to get affected by the work.” Of this year’s pics, 52 were done by first-time filmmakers. Highlights include comedian Mike Birbiglia’s _Don’t Think Twice,_ Ti West’s _In a Valley of Violence_ and Todd Bieber’s _Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon._ The lineup also includes Jeff Nichols’ _Midnight Special_, Ilya Naishuller’s _Hardcore Henry_ and Jean-Marc Vallee’s _Demolition._ Jesse Moss’ _The Bandit and_ Marina Zenovich’s _Fantastic Lies_ will screen as a part of the Documentary Spotlight section, alongside previously announced docs _Beware the Slenderman_ and _Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru._ Appearing in the Episodic category, alongside the previously announced Seth Rogen adaptation _Preacher_, will be Danny McBride’s _Vice Principals,_ John Scott Shepherd_‘s You Me Her_ and Robert Kirkman’s _Outcast_. The opening-night selection _Everybody Wants Some_ will come from Austin native Richard Linklater. “Rick \[Linklater\] has certainly been involved with SXSW, but we have never been in the position where we have been presenting the world premiere of his work,” said Pierson. “It is exciting because we are known for showing funnier films, so it is the perfect marriage for us.” Additional titles will be announced before the fest. The 23rd SXSW is set to run March 11-19 in Austin, Texas. The current lineup can be found [here.](http://www.sxsw.com/film) [_This article originally appeared on HollywoodReporter.com_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sxsw-2016-festival-lineup-unveiled-861046) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Twenty years ago, the release of Tim Burton's, The Nightmare Before Christmas was the first time a Hollywood studio gambled on a full- length stop- motion animated feature. It's wild success launched a renaissance in movies crafted frame by frame. Here are some of the movies that inspired it's success, and some of the amazing ones that followed. [ MUSIC ] [ NOISE ] The director of French sci- fi epic, Fantastic Planet, used cutout 2D stop- motion to create a surreal world. Think Terry Gilliam's Monty Python work. Or the pilot for South Park. Czech animator, Jan Svankmajer, is known for his surreal and sometimes downright disturbing work with claymation and pixelation, which is the animation of found objects. In Alice, his first feature- length film, he brings this sensibility to his adaptation of Lewis Carrol's, Alice. [ SOUND ] Stories. [ MUSIC ] The Nightmare Before Christmas's uniqueness isn't necessarily the characters or the plot. It's the physicality of its imagined world, created in Henry Selick's San Francisco studio. We've seen creatures like this before in Ray Harryhausen's work, essentially posable action figures built over wire frame skeletons. But this is the first time they've comprised a whole movie and displayed so many different moving muscles and facial expressions. [ MUSIC ] My names Rocky. And what brings you to England? While all the beautiful English chicks of course. Most of the characters in the 2000 claymation film Chicken Run are hens. But they have that signature buggy- eyed, toothy grinned look, that marks them as creations of UK based Aardman Studios. You'll recognize that goofy handmade style from Aardman's short Wallace and Gromit films. And in 2005 Aardman finally gave us a feature- length adventure for the eccentric inventor and his even smarter dog. Hello, I'll need assistance. [ NOISE ] Ow. So. Your back. [ MUSIC ] Nightmare before Christmas director Henry Selick met Neil Gaiman just as Gaiman's new book Coraline was about to be published. That meeting inspired the elaborate spooky screen version of the novel. A seven year project that was one of the first stop- motion films to be shot in 3D. Some of the characters were manufactured through the use of black and white 3D printers. Also a first. I've got it. There's not a moment to lose. After years of making movies with detailed dollhouse like settings, it seemed natural that Wes Anderson would make a stop- motion movie. His miniaturists eye is perfectly suited to the children's storybook world of Roald Dahl. You really are fantastic. I try. [ NOISE ] Tim Burton brought his career full circle with Frankenweenie, the feature length adaptation of the animated short that was his first release. Shot in glorious black and white, the movie is full of witty visual and oral references to past Burton features, as well as illusions to the classic monster movies Burton watched as a child. 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