Nick Park and Aardman

Lewis Lacey, Ant “Crack Abuser” Lewis

& Ollie Hosier

Nick Park

Nick Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995), and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4W9MCAp6E

Nick Parks ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Facts• His films always have some sort of machine that plays a major part in the film's climax.

• His characters have upper and lower jaws with differing curvature

• Knitting is featured, and done properly (with correct movements and stitches) in all W & G and Chicken Run Movies.

• He was into animation at an early age, spent most of his adolescence doodling and drawing.

• He is famous for creating animation films using plastacine. Several years ago he lost the Wallace and Gromit figures in New York in a cab!

• Began filming at the age of 13 years old using his parents equipment in his attic.

• In 1975 the BBC decided to air his short, Archie’s Concrete Nightmare

• He is a producer, writer, director, animation department, and cinematographer

• Examples: Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Creature Comforts.

• Nick Park is Aardman’s main animator!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVSEVQlXPA

His Filmography, IMDb - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661910/

His Biography - http://movies.about.com/od/animatedmovies/a/Nick-Park-Biography.htm

It was Dennis the Menace, The Bash Street Kids and Lord Snooty that inspired him to pick up a pen, as he lovingly copied out their adventures. And there are clear parallels between the world inhabited by Wallace and Gromit

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/21/television

Inspirations