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
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
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
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
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
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

Animators research

  • 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 ArinHanson 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 Hewas 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 DianneJackson 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 RaymondFrederick "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 ChrisO'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