George Pal was a Hungarian-born american animator. Pal was born in 1908 and died in 1980. At the age of only 20 he graduated from Budapest Academy Of Arts and after this event he went on to create films for Hunnia Films of Budapest. He later went on in his life to patent his stop motion technique as pal-doll or better known as Puppetoons . This was also an animation series he later created. The Puppetoons was a patent technique that he frequently used to create his animations and also the name of the series he created including 'Jasper and the haunted house' and 'Tubby the Tuba'. This then lead him to an Honorary Oscar and not long after he decided to switch to live action film making when he made 'The Great Rupert'. Below is an example of Pal's animation work.
The Brothers Quay
Stephan and Timothy Quay (the brothers quay) are american identical twins. The twins were born in 1947 and are influential stop motion animators.They were born in Pennsylvania which is where they studied illustration before moving on to the Royal College of Art in London. The pair began to produce shorts in the late 70's. The pair are both screenwriters, animators, cinematographers and directors. Their style of work is really rather different to the work of a usual animator and is often described as dark because it mainly consists of puppets and dolls coming to life in obscure ways. Some of their most well known work include: 'Street of Crocodiles', 'Institute Benjamenta', 'The Dream that One Calls Human Life' and 'The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes'. Below is an example of The Brothers Quay's work.
Adam Shaheen
Adam Shaheen is a British animator, television producer and screenwriter. He is the original founder of 'Cuppa Coffee Studios' which is Canad's oldest privately owned animation studio. Shaheen gained a BA in Photography and went to London college of Printing. Some of his work is similar to work of thunder birds. Shaheen is a claymation animator and uses clay or Plasticine to create his characters. Claymation id one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each character or background piece is sculpted individually using clay and a frame and then photographed in different states. Because it is deformable you are able to see more movement compared to other animation styles. His audiences seem to be more aimed teens because their are numerous amounts of sexual references and violence acts in his animations. Shaheen's work includes: 'JoJo's Circus','Celebrity Deathmatch', 'Starveillance', 'Tigga and Togga' and 'A Miser Brothers Christmas'. The majority of his work seems to be aired on popular american channels such as ABC family(america) or MTV. Also a lot of the time he seems to like to mock celebrities and their mannerisms. Below is an example of his work.
Nick Parkman and Aardman
Nick Parkman was born in 1958 and is an English film maker of stop motion animation best known for his work of 'Wallace and Gromit' along with 'Shaun the Sheep'. Park has been nominated an astounding six times for an academy award and has won four with his Creature comforts series, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, Wallace and Gromit: A close Shave and finally Wallace and Gromit:The curse of the Were-rabbit. His inspirations which made him pick up a pen and animate came from animations from his childhood such as Dennis the Menace, The Bash Street Kids and Lord Snooty as he copied their adventures for hours on end. We can see his inspirations in his own work as there are clear links from world to world mainly seen in his productions of Wallace and Gromit. Below is an example of their work.
Otmar Gutmann
Otmar Gutmann was born in 1937 and died in 1993. He was a German television producer, animator and director. He is most commonly known and remebered for his animated creation 'Pingu' and he also originally founded 'The Pygos group' in 1986. Pingu is a BAFTA award-winning British-Swiss stop motion claymation television children's series centered around a family of penguins living n the south pole. Each individual penguin is identified by a separate noise/sound. Below is an example of his work.
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett is a movie director and award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specialize in creature design and character design. Tippett was born in Berkeley, California. In 1958, when he was seven, Phil saw Ray Harryhausen's special effects classic, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and his life's direction was set. Phil completed a bachelor's degree in art at the University of California, Irvine, and went to work at the animation studio Cascade Pictures in Los Angeles. The turning point came in 1975 when George Lucas hired Phil and Jon Berg to create a stop motion miniature chess scene for Star Wars: A New Hope. Phil then went on to work on many different aspects of the Star Wars films working on modeling and casting alien heads and limbs for the busy Cantina scene in the first film. By 1978 Phil lead the animation team of Industrial Light and Magice that would launch his career bringing life to the Imperial Walkers and the alien hybrid Tauntaun for The Empire Strikes Back. Below is an example of Phil's work.
Tim Burton and Harry Selic
Burton was born in 1958 in California. He would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen street using crude stop motion animation techniques, filmed without sound. Henry Selick was born in 1952 and is an American stop motion director, producor and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline. Burton is known for his dark Gothic style and is a huge fan of Vincent Price and Edward Gorey. Despite having a typical suburban upbringing in his Burbank, Califonia home, young Burton spent a lot of his time crafting very twisted and imaginative drawings. Some of these childhood drawings would serve as the inspiration for some of his most memorable characters and films such as Jack from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Below is an example of their work.
Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien was born in Oakland, California in 1886 and died in 1962. Willis had sets of animatropic figures which he would use glue to create scenes in animation time and then put them in with real time scenes. This was how he created his work in the film industry. The biggest part of O'Brien's life was when he had the opportunity to work with Ray Harryhausen on 'The Lost World' this was one of O'Brien's biggest films.
Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was born in Los Angeles, California, USA during 1920 and died in 2013. He was an american visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop motion animation called 'Dynamation'. Below is an example of a scene he has worked on in a film called 'Jason and the Argonauts'.
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