Group 6

Nick Park

Abbie Whenary, Jesca Warren, Natalie Urwin,

Sam Tremain, Callum Whitley.
Introduction

• Nick Park
• Influences
• Career
• Clay animation
Clay Animation

The Gumby show

•1957 – 1968

•Clay Animated characters

Fig 13 : Gumby – Weight and see 1957

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcoKEsaoa6I&feature=related
 Nick Park
Stop Motion Animator.

•Creator of Wallace and

Gromit

•Know for his style

•Use of British humour

Fig 1- Nick park with wallace and gromit models.

 Nick Park
Influences.

Ray Harryhausen

Fig 2 - Ray Harryhausen with the snake lady model.

“I always considered Ray Harryhausen’s work so fine that it was way out of my
league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.”

Nick Park – Interviewed by Horatia Harrod For the Telegraph April 19 th 2010.
Nick Park
Influences.

Ray Harryhausen
•Jason and the Argonauts
•Sinbad
•Mighty Joe young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Buz3pvB0Q&feature=related
 Nick Park
Influences.

Raymond Briggs

Fig 3 – Father Christmas book cover.

Fig 4
“He did a book called Farther Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman, which were
popular in the UK. I love that graphic and chunky style that he had where
everything rendered. He also did the snowman, which was later turned into
animation. I always loved those 1950’s shapes , all the post- World War II”

Nick Park 2010.

Nick Park
Career.

Sledgehammer -
Peter Gabriel music video

Nick Parks early work

includes the dance
sequence in the
Fig 6 – music video still, Peter Gabriel. Sledgehammer music
video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-
b5KHg

Fig 5 – dancing chickens .

Nick Park
Career.

Wallace and Gromit

•First creation

•One of the most well

known Clay animations.

•Fig 7 : Wallace and Gromit.

Nick Park
Career.

Creature comforts
•Aired in 20037

•Adverts

•Specials

Fig 8 – still from creature comforts.

Nick Park
Career.

Feature length movies

Fig 10 – Movie poster for chicken

Fig 9 – Movie post for wallace and gromit run.
cures of the were-rabbit.
Nick Park
Icon.

Celebrity Death match

•Aired in 1998

•Over exaggerates violence

•Claymation Wrestling

Fig 11 – Celebrity death match, Tommy

Lee and Pamela Anderson.
Nick Park
Icon.

Robot Chicken

•Aired 2005

•Written by Seth Green and

Matthew Senrich

•Combines action figures

and claymation

Fig 12 – Still from Star robot chicken

wars.
Conclusion

• Nick Park learnt from his influences

• Started new trend

• Then influenced younger generations

• More elaborate

• Creative

• Character

• Humour

• Create whatever you want

Possibilities are endless

Illustration list

Fig 1 : Nick Park with wallace and gromit models (2006)

http://wallaceandgromit.net/2006/01/29/fleeced-bafta-nomination-and-a-sweater/
Fig 2: Ray Harryhausen with snake lady model (date unknown) on BlogSpot.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/ray1.jpg
Fig 3: Father Christmas book cover (1973)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/raymond-briggs/father-christmas.htm
Fig 4: Father Christmas book illustrations (1973)
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Raymond%20Briggs%20Father%20Christmas%202.jpg
Fig5: Dancing chickens , music video still. (unknown date) on BlogSpot
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yPWyFZEdY0s/SE_dLUYpAbI/AAAAAAAADuk/60C5U9bEBgo/s400/chickendance2.jpg
Fig 6 : Still of Peter Gabriel from the music video for sledgehammer (unknown date)
http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/peter_gabriel/peter_gabriel_sledgehammer.jpg
Fig 7 : Wallace and Gromit (unknown date)
http://gadgetynews.com/wallace-and-gromit-are-also-an-iphone-hit-cracking-job-lads/
Fig 8 : Creature comforts (unkown date)
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/202945-creature-comforts-team-boosts-disabled-charity
Fig 9: Wallace and gromit curse of the were-rabbit movie poster (2005)
http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/09/wallace-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit/
Fig 10: chicken run movie poster (2000)
http://movie.masjo.com/search/download+chicken+run+movie
Fig 11: Celebrity Death match (2006)
http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/723/723571p1.html
Fig 12 : Robot Chicken star wars (2009)
http://www.filmshaft.com/star-wars-episode-ii-robot-chicken-style/
Fig 13 : Gumby-Weight and See (1957) From: The Gumby Show. On Livejournal
http://community.livejournal.com/daily_cartoon/tag/gumby (Accessed on: 29.03.11)
Bibliography

 
•http://
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-life/7593616/Nick-Parks-tribute-to-Ray-Harryhausen-Wallace-and-Gromit-stop-motion-animation.ht
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•Nick Park: Making his Mark in Clay, 2005, Animation Magazine, [online] Avalible at:
http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/nick-park-making-his-mark-in-clay/
•http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2016000/2016225.stm
•http://www.tv.com/creature-comforts-uk/show/22050/summary.html