Nick Park

Nick Park is a British stop motion animator who's most famous creations include
Wallace & Gromit, & Creature Comforts.

His work is known for its play doe style and dry British humor.
 Nick Park’s Influences
King Kong (1933) & Ray
Harryhausen

“I seemed to have followed exactly the

same path as Ray, really, although
obviously Ray has put down the
foundations - I came a lot later, to a world
that was already introduced to the
techniques and already pioneered. But
the same thing - I have, hearing Ray talk
about his experiences of seeing King
Kong, I have very strong memories of
being a 12-year-old. I was reading Ray's
book throughout this week and, already
hearing from Ray in earlier meetings, of
how you went to see King Kong as a
young boy, and those are very vivid
memories for me, because, like you, I
was obsessed with dinosaurs, and I think
I wanted to be a palaeontologist when I
grew up, and... it's funny, although many
years later, I remember I couldn't wait to
get home to see this film that I'd seen
trailed on the TV - the magic of seeing
dinosaurs living on screen for the first
time” Park [2003]
Raymond Briggs

“He did a book called Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman, which were

popular in the U.K. I love that graphic and chunky style that he had where everything
is rendered. He also did The Snowman, which was later turned into animation. I
always loved those 1950s shapes, all post-World War II” Park [2010]
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel Music Video (Parks Early Work)

Parks early work includes the chicken

dance sequence in the
Sledgehammer music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg
Creature Comforts & Wallace and Gromit
Feature Length Movies