Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit"Nick Park is by far my most captivating film maker mentor when it comes to claymation. The creator of the “Wallace and Gromit” series and movie, as well as “Chicken Run”, “Creature Comforts” and any more that I’m not aware of.
He’s really been an inspiration to me and most likely other claymators as well. His first job, undertaking his first published film ever costs his financier roughly ten grand. And with it he makes a journey to the moon to gather cheese. He wasn’t exactly a pioneer of claymation as most Gumby experts and old “Drummer Boy” enthusiast would say.
Yet what helped me the most was his special features in his DVD versions of Wallace and Gromit. But DVD’s weren’t streamline till I was around sixteen, three years before I could watch two hours of bonus features. So neglecting the wire skeleton, I was abandoned to fail in many of my endeavors.
Yet I am mostly intrigued by him in that he shows the huge market for claymation. He has spawned many new and exciting claymations. Maybe not directly from him, but since his appearance it seems to me that many more followers of the sort create television shows whose fundamentals are clay.
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