|
|
Article: Network: From Plasticine to the PlayStation Nick Park admits to being something of a technophobe, and his Oscar- winning work at Aardman Animations is defiantly old-fashioned. So why has he let game developers get their hands on his painstakingly crafted characters from `Chicken Run'? He talks to Sally Chatterton
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2001 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Think of Nick Park and Aardman Animations, and images of
Plasticine, clay and Wensleydale cheese will probably come to mind.
Park, a director at Aardman, is famed for his dodgy taste in bow
ties, his three Oscars and his talent for Plasticine-figure
animation. You certainly don't think PlayStation.
Park's is an old-fashioned art form - Aardman Animations
specialises in creating characters from Plasticine and then
photographing their incremental movements one by one to create the
illusion of motion. It is painstaking, agonisingly slow work, but
Park and the studio have received worldwide acclaim and Hollywood