Nick Park
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator 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, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 December 1958
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Yeah! For me, it's a dream come true just to be taken seriously, in a sense.
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He was concerned about how the British accents would translate, and sometimes we rerecorded lines to make things clearer,
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This rabbit is really a vicious monster. He doesn't eat people, but instead saves his dirty work for vegetables. In many ways, we're the world's first vegetarian horror movie.
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There are things that have gone -- sets and props from The Wrong Trousers.
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It can only be a good thing from my point of view. With all the kind of movement toward computer animation and as great as many of those films are, there's more people who have been employed in stop-motion animation in the last year than ever before.
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I think it's because Lady Tottington and Victor are aristocrats,
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With the success of three half-hour shows behind us, it seemed a natural step to go for a feature film,
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We could have done the Were-Rabbit in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional (stop-motion) techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression.
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I think they certainly will be after this weekend.
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We're both absolutely delighted. We're over the moon.
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I do see family resemblances, I think that happens automatically, ... But sometimes I wonder if they're two sides of myself, really. Gromit is the kind one who's quiet and likes order and is very cautious about everything, and Wallace is the one who just wants to get up and do things without thinking.
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We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
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Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
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Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.