![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Animator, Screen Story Born: December 6, 1958 Biography:A man whose creative brilliance is superceded only by the eccentricities on display in his work, writer/director/producer/animator "Nick Park" has been revolutionizing the art of claymation since 1989, when he made the Oscar-winning short Creature Comforts. Working in concert with Aardman Animations, Park has created a bizarre, inextricably British universe where mute dogs solve riddles that elude their dim owners, penguins plot dastardly deeds, chickens act out their own version of The Great Escape, and cheese is granted a standing of disquieting importance.
Born in Preston, Lancashire, on December 6, 1958, Park was exposed to both chickens and animation at an early age. He made his first animated film at the age of 13 and made his professional debut four years later, on BBC television, with the animated short Archie's Concrete Nightmare (1975). After attending the Sheffield Art School, where he... Full Biography
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