Nicolas Wulstan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4K-2aflhA

Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE (born 6 December 1958) is an English director, writer and stop

motion artist best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. In 1985, he

joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial

products (including the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", where he worked on the dance

scene involving oven-ready chickens). He also had a part in animating the Pee-wee's Playhouse

which featured Paul Reubens. Along with all this, he had finally completed A Grand Day Out, and

with that in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts

called "Lip Synch". Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people

talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards. A Grand Day Out

beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first

Oscar.

Peter Lord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLuLWLfqNB0

Peter Lord, CBE (born November 4, 1953) is a British film producer, director and co -founder of

the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its

clay-animated films and shorts,

Lord was born in Bristol, England. In cooperation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth, he

realised his dream of "making and taking an animated movie". He graduated in English from the

University of York in 1976. He and Sproxton founded Aardman as a low-budget backyard studio,

producing shorts and trailers for publicity. Their work was first shown as part of the BBC TV

series Vision On. In 1976 they created Morph, a stop-motion animated character made of

Plasticine, who was usually a comic foil to the TV presenter Tony Hart. With his alter-ego Chas,

he appeared in a series of children's art programmes including Take Hart, Hartbeat and Smart. In

1981, Morph appeared in his own TV series The Amazing Adventures of Morph.

Dianne Jackson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEvL_hdN2A

Dianne Jackson (July 28, 1941 – December 31, 1992) 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.

Oney NG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE

Chris O'Neill (Oney) is an artist, animator, and musician with a big heart and even bigger love

handles. Co-creator of Hellbenders and Leo and Satan. He enjoys drawing, animation and making

music

Aside from co-creating Leo & Satan, he does other various voices in the series as well as providing

sound effects, writing the music, designing the characters etc.

Oliver Postgate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6CoIwcJ-E

Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.

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.

Lee Hardcastle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_12dNVc8Y&list=PLCvvtzJNc1TDCHoa3IC-6SAtpyI1G8EuG

Writer, Director & Animator - Lee Hardcastle began claymation full-time in 2010 after online success

with a little claymation titled The Evil Dead in 60 seconds. The following year he sold all his

belongings to support an unpaid career and created short films that screened at Cannes and won a

place in the feature film ABCs of Death. He's gone on to work with Momentum Pictures, 20th

Century Fox, Sufjan Stevens, Kill the Noise, Portugal the Man.

Other notable achievements include Pingu's The Thing which landed him in trouble with Pingu and

given praise by John Carpenter. His fan film Claycat's The Raid was included on the international

home video release. Most recently, he received the 2013 MTV Clubland Music Video of Year award

for Kill the Noise.