Nick Park — British Director born on December 06, 1958,

Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit... (wikipedia)

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.'