Style and Creative Temperament
Joe Ranft, Selick's late friend and sometime collaborator, once stated in an interview that Selick had a "rock 'n' roll-meets-Da Vinci temperament." In Ranft's words "He'll still go off to his office to play guitar or electric piano to ease off and think," but at the same time Selick operates scientifically. "He gets an outrageous premise—something that comes from a real dream place—then approaches the aesthetics of it like a mechanical engineer: What can we build on this foundation, how do we buttress it? If we have a mechanical shark, how does it kill? Will it shoot things from its snout?" Ranft said Selick has an uncanny gift: "He can articulate things through animation that people couldn't say otherwise."
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