Animation Research - Claymation

Animation Project

Stop Motion Animation: Nick Park

As well as looking at Tim Burton's darker themed stop motion, I also adventured into the lighter side of stop motion animation with Nick Park's 'Wallace and Gromit' shorts, as well as his other stop motion projects, such as 'Chicken Run'.

Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts are a collection of stop motion pieces created using clay models, putting it the the category of claymation, a sub category of stop motion. Claymation is Nick Park's most used style of stop animation and while most of his works are short animations, he has also created feature films 'Chicken Run' and 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit', with Chicken Run being his first feature length work.

His work is usually comedy oriented, though he doesn't always shy away from other themes and many of his animation shorts have received several awards and a popular following. Some of the awards received include BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy awards.

Park's work is a key example of high quality models and excellent animation processes merging together to create a well rounded piece of animation work.