Henry Selick is one of the greatest directors of stop-motion films. He began working at Disney in the 1970s as an in-betweener on films such as Pete's Dragon, The Small One, and The Fox and the Hound, before leaving the company to work as a freelance animator and storyboard artist on commercials and films such as Return to Oz. His career took off when he teamed up with fellow Disney alumni, Tim Burton, to direct The Nightmare Before Christmas.