Nick Park on
One Million Years B.C. 1966
The Ray Harryhausen film Park saw at 11 that made him pick up a camera and start animating dinosaurs out of clay.
The Big Picture · Interview
Why Stop-Motion Animation Takes Forever to Make, With Nick Park | The Big Picture (Ep. 49)
February 16, 2018/ 25 min/ Sean Fennessey
Nick Park on why Early Man took five years, the Ray Harryhausen film that hooked him on animation, and running a 150-person stop-motion shoot across 35 sets.
9 films across 1 segment.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
In conversation
Nick Park on
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005
The last Aardman feature shot on film before the switch to digital cameras.
Nick Park on
Early Man 2018
Park's new film, a Stone Age-vs.-Bronze Age soccer comedy four or five years in the making, with its opening dinosaur fight built as a direct Harryhausen tribute.
Nick Park on
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
Henry Selick's film convinced Park and Aardman that stop-motion could carry a full feature.
Nick Park on
A Grand Day Out 1989
The first Wallace and Gromit short. Park animated about 90 percent of it himself.
Nick Park on
The Wrong Trousers 1993
Park and Steve Box handled all the animation, before the crew grew to seven and then to 35 or 40 on a feature.
Nick Park on
Chicken Run 2000
One of the features Park and producer Peter Lord built toward as Aardman expanded.
Nick Park on
Coco 2017
Park's answer to the show's closing question: the last great thing he'd seen.
Nick Park on
Inside Out 2015
Cited as proof Pete Docter can make something mature and entertaining at the same time.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing A Matter of Loaf and DeathStrong IslandBlack Panther
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