Nick Park: 'We'd 40 animators and we'd be trying to hit about a minute a week'

Aardman animator Nick Park tells Esther McCarthy how his latest feature took two full years just to painstakingly film the scenes.

Aardman animator Nick Park tells Esther McCarthy how his latest feature took two full years just to painstakingly film the scenes.

WHEN Nick Park was a boy, his father found the old cine camera he’d bought for Nick’s mum years earlier, showed him the ‘animation’ button, and unwittingly fostered a passion that would change the course of animated-movie history.