Wallace & Gromit

by Nick Park, Peter Sallis (Narrator)

A behind-the-scenes account of the animated film, "The Wrong Trousers". It includes the whole of the original storyboard, including material which was cut from the final production, as well as describing how the film was conceived and shaped.

Genres: Childrens

Audio Cassette

First published September 22, 1994

About the author

Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, 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).

He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.

For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.

Reviews

[Aleks ⁺ ✦ ⊹ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book if you are an animation student and are looking to see the pre-production stage of animating a movie

[Joey · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it! it was nice, different, unusual. yes, it was nice.