Henry Selick — American Director born on November 30, 1952,

Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline. He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel... (wikipedia)

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.
Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.
There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.
No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.
Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.