This document profiles several famous animators including Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit; Arin Hanson known for web animations and video game parody songs; Oliver Postgate who created classic British children's shows like Noggin the Nog and Bagpuss; Dianne Jackson who directed the beloved Christmas film The Snowman; Ray Harryhausen a pioneer of stop-motion model animation in films like Jason and the Argonauts; and Chris O'Neill who co-created animated series Hellbenders and Leo and Satan.

1. Animators
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer and stop motion artist 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 (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993),
A Close Shave (1995), and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4K-2aflhA

2. Arin Hanson
Arin Hanson more prominently known by his internet pseudonym, Egoraptor, is an American
animator, cartoonist, voice actor, rapper and Internet personality. He is known for his animated
webseries, The Awesome Series, in which Hanson parodies various video game franchises, including
Pokémon, Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden, and Final Fantasy. The series originally aired on Newgrounds.
Hanson occasionally participates in sketch comedy and collaborations with fellow animators such as
Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan, Rodrigo "El-Cid" Huerta, and Chris "Oney" O'Neill. He is also known
for being the co-star of popular YouTube Let's Play webseries, Game Grumps, producing and
singing/rapping in video game parody band Starbomb, and for his animated comedy video game
review series called Sequelitis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0tnfU-QAo&list=UU0gEw6pgNkLkkzMwzX4UtHA

3. Oliver Postgate
He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes.
Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by
Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the
1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was
voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
Clangers is a British stop-motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family
of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. They speak in whistles,
and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon. The programmes were originally broadcast by the
BBC in 1969–1972. The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate
(writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator). Firmin designed the
characters, and his wife knitted and "dressed" the Clangers. The music, often part of the story, was
by Vernon Elliott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMqKgshQCk

4. Dianne Jackson
Dianne Jackson was an English animation director, best known for The Snowman, made in 1982 and
subsequently repeated every Christmas on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
She had a long career as an animator, and her earliest credit was for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
in 1968. She is particularly noted for recreating the style of the original artists in her animations, for
example of Raymond Briggs's picture book, The Snowman.She also directed Granpa by John
Burningham in 1989 and was due to direct Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas in 1991, having
completed storyboarding for the film, although due to her illness this was directed by Dave Unwin.
She was also planning the first series of animated adaptations of the tales of Beatrix Potter as The
World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. However, she died of cancer on New Year's Eve 1992.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9KpobX9J8

5. Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen was an American visual effects creator, writer, and produce r
who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."
His most memorable works include the animation on Mighty Joe Young (1949), with his mentor
Willis H. O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
(1958), his first color film; and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), featuring a famous sword fight
against seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired.
Harryhausen lived in London from 1960 until his death in 2013. During his life, his innovative style of
special effects in movies have inspired numerous celebrities, including directors John Lasseter and
Tim Burton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7W-oPhY48

6. Chris O’Neill
Chris O'Neill (Oney) is an artist, animator, and musician. He is the co-creator of Hellbenders and Leo
and Satan. He enjoys drawing, animation and making music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSmhZFbCy0