Tim Burton is an American animator and film director. His films contain an extremely gothic and dark look and feel to them, and certainly contain similar themes. He is well known for film such as Frankenweenie, Nightmare before Christmas and Sweeney Todd. The reason why Tim Burton is such an influential director is the endless use of techniques he uses in his films and the effect he uses them to. One of them is mise en scene as well as extreme colour contrasts, and the reason these effects work so well in Burton’s work is because they allow the viewer to instantly be pulled into whatever world his films contain, and to also allow the viewers to really become emotionally involved with his characters. This is evidenced by the fact that his films are perhaps more popular today than ever before. The Nightmare before Christmas took an extremely long period to make and included 227 puppets to use in the film, which show the true extent of the creative ambition he has as a director. His work appeals to a young audience as while his films do have dark and surreal content they usual have comedic undertones to them as well.