Nick was said to be a quietly spoken Lancastrian, an unlikely player in the highly competitive film and TV industry in the book called, The World of Wallace and Gromit written by Andy Lane.
Nicholas Wulstan Park was born 1958 in Preston, Lancashire to a photographer father and a seamstress mother. The fact that Park’s dad was a photographer and had done a bit of film making and animation himself meant ‘film making was made to seem possible and accessible, even normal’.
Nick was brought up watching stop-motion animated children’s series such as The Clangers (1969-74)
and Bagpuss (1974)
Nick knew he wanted to make the same kind of programmes himself. As a child Park spent ages in his loft making animations with his mother’s camera. The first animated film he made was at the age of 13. (www.britmovie.co.uk) His first animated short to be aired was four years later with Archie’s Concrete Nightmare (1975) through a BBC competition. Although it did not win it was still shown on television. Nick went on to study Communication Arts at Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam Univesity) and then took a course in animation at the National Film and Television School in the early 1980s. There was where he started making the first Wallace and Gromit, A Grand Dat Out.
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