Erik

…No. Seriously.

I’ve had it in my mind for the longest time now, ever since I watched this “deleted scene” ages ago. The D23 Event celebrating Nightmare’s 25th anniversary surfaced these memories when they brought up a certain storyboard depicting this EXACT test, as seen above.

This is pretty different than what we got in the actual movie. Santa shows how upset he is in TNBC and his initial annoyance with Jack, but I never thought he’d go to the extent of grabbing him by the neck with his cane. This is a pretty interesting side of him to see - especially of the design used in this test. The exaggeration of his eyebrows and the mannerisms cry Rankin/Bass Special vibes. There’s even a close-up picture of Santa’s figure:

Take what you will, but I like this deleted scene. The way Zero is animated and interacts with Jack, followed by the noises and sounds, feel really cartooninish, and how he’s used as a tissue is a callback to the original poem written by Tim Burton. It matches the “tv special” vibe Burton first went with Nightmare; it’s pretty similar to the old stop-motion Christmas specials. Sure, Jack’s voice is different and his suit looks completely black(again, a little callback because Jack’s original design had no stripes), but it’s a really neat look to see what has changed.

From what has been heard, apparently Frank Welker provided this voice in the test(a lot of voice changes have been made during production), and I do believe this was an early test like you said.

…No. Seriously.

I’ve had it in my mind for the longest time now, ever since I watched this “deleted scene” ages ago. The D23 Event celebrating Nightmare’s 25th anniversary surfaced these memories when they brought up a certain storyboard depicting this EXACT test, as seen above.

This is pretty different than what we got in the actual movie. Santa shows how upset he is in TNBC and his initial annoyance with Jack, but I never thought he’d go to the extent of grabbing him by the neck with his cane. This is a pretty interesting side of him to see - especially of the design used in this test. The exaggeration of his eyebrows and the mannerisms cry Rankin/Bass Special vibes. There’s even a close-up picture of Santa’s figure:

Take what you will, but I like this deleted scene. The way Zero is animated and interacts with Jack, followed by the noises and sounds, feel really cartooninish, and how he’s used as a tissue is a callback to the original poem written by Tim Burton. It matches the “tv special” vibe Burton first went with Nightmare; it’s pretty similar to the old stop-motion Christmas specials. Sure, Jack’s voice is different and his suit looks completely black(again, a little callback because Jack’s original design had no stripes), but it’s a really neat look to see what has changed.

a great variety of animal-related AUs I’ve drawn over the years and posted on my patreon! 🦔

I love making this sort of senseless cutesy AU, hence the satyrs… lol! I’ve added descriptions on each one of the drawings, if they need clarification!

There’s a headless picture among them, so sorry for the body horror ! But it find it so cute anyway :9

drew a lot of dinos while working at Sak