20 Questions With Nick Park
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wallace & Gromit we asked members of their official website to submit their questions to Nick Park. 20 of the best were selected and put to Nick in a special video interview shot in the brand new Aardman cinema!
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Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.
- Film about animation
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Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.
- Film about animation
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Creature Comforts is a classic Aardman series based on the Oscar® winning short film by Nick Park featuring the real and unscripted voices of the great British public put in the mouths of animals made of modelling clay.
- Comedy
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A making of the 2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please.
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New this year, our TIFF Kids International Film Festival Master Class is a unique opportunity for Industry delegates and film students to learn from animation industry pioneer Peter Lord. Peter Lord is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with his long-time collaborator David Sproxton in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and again in 1996 for Wat's Pig. He has also earned BAFTA nominations for Adam, The Amazing Adventures of Morph, and War Story.
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Five 7 second ads I made for Target Breast Cancer
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Why do we mock superstition? This film challenges the perceived superiority of rationality, arguing that our skepticism often stems not from intellect, but from luck and privilege.
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy
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Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets. The exhibition was a smash-hit five-star success and brought a younger and more diverse audience to the museum. The film uses the exhibition as a launchpad to travel to Tokyo itself, and explore the art and artists of the city more fully.
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Animation is team work and Joanna Quinn often gets asked how she is able to keep her style when working with other animators on my films.
- Film about animation
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Joanna Quinn talks us through the journey of a scene of Affairs of the Art from Script to the Screen, paying special attention to her unusual way of working out the mouth shapes!
- Film about animation
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Priit Pärn introduces his film for a special London Animation Club event called Perils Of Perestroika Part 2 on 19th July 2021. The video was made especially by Olga Pärn.
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What does it take to be a successful animator - patience, attention to detail, obsession and more patience! Welcome to the animated world of Joanna Quinn. In this masterclass Joanna will be talking with students about her life as one of the most successful women animators and will give us a rare practical insight into the way she approaches animation and her own animation technique. A unique opportunity to see inside the weird and wonderful mind of an animator.