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Oct 14, 2002 · Student film. The leap from sketchbook doodle to movie has taken 20 years so far and brought the quiet-spoken Lancashire animator great success and plaudits. Nick Park on a hat-trick of Oscar success. Wallace and Gromit were originally ideas for a student film in 1982 but it took 10 years before the figures were first moulded from plasticine.
Oct 10, 2005 · Props and sets from the Wallace and Gromit films have been destroyed in a warehouse blaze. The storage building belonging to Oscar-winning Aardman Animations, contained the company's "entire history", a spokesman said. Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park said it was "dreadful" for the company but comparatively "not a big deal".
Mar 8, 2010 · The creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park, came away empty-handed from the Oscar ceremony In Los Angeles. Mr Park, whose company Aardman Animations, is based in Bristol, was hoping to add to his tally of four Oscars. A Matter of Loaf and Death, the fourth short film featuring Wallace and Gromit, was nominated for best animated short film.
Oct 15, 2002 · Nick Park is the man behind Wallace and Gromit, two of the UK's most successful animated characters. He has answered your questions. He has won four Baftas and three Oscars for his animation work and has been made a CBE for his contribution to the British film industry. He first thought up the Lancastrian cheese-lover and his hapless mongrel ...
Oct 2, 2007 · Nick Park interview. Wallace and Gromit are to return in a half-hour television adventure - the first since 1995's A Close Shave. Aardman Animations has announced that the cheese-loving inventor and his loyal dog will star in Trouble At' Mill - to screen on BBC One in late 2008. Creator Nick Park said: "The story takes Wallace and Gromit in a ...
Oct 30, 1999 · With three Oscars, four Baftas, a CBE and a Steven Spielberg deal under his belt, there's no doubting Nick Park is a man of talent. But it took the Aardman Animations director and animator until the age of 30 to really prove himself. The limelight finally beckoned for Park, now 41, when he completed a short animated film called A Grand Day Out.
Also, Nick Park and the Twenty Years of Wallace and Gromit exhibition opens at The Illustration Cupboard in London with private view of the new books. The exhibition, which runs from September 29 to October 24, will include original colour artwork from Wallace and Gromit as well as storyboard drawings from the films.
Oct 10, 2005 · Aardman's Plasticine hero Morph first appeared on Take Hart in 1977. Aardman, best-known for Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts and Morph, has a distinguished track record stretching back almost 30 years. But in several hours on Monday morning, most original drawings, wooden sets, paperwork, awards and other memorabilia went up in smoke.
Mar 4, 2006 · Nick Park and Steve Box are in a lighthearted mood befitting two men who could be Oscar-winners by Sunday night. The two British animators of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit are in Santa Monica ready to enjoy the Oscar experience, having chosen the BBC for their only pre-awards interview.
Jun 29, 2000 · Park and Lord's fowl play. After four long years - and a seemingly endless supply of plasticine - Chicken Run from the award-winning Aardman Animations is finally here. No-one is more relieved to see it released than its creators and directors, Nick Park and Peter Lord, who wondered at times if their first full-length feature would ever be hatched.
