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‘Creature Comforts’ at the Zoo pre-OOT.

by coldwarrior ( 27 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at February 15th, 2012 - 7:00 pm

The following video is from Nick Park’s Aardman company it won an Oscar and really launched his career. It’s very funny, please check it out. The Brazilian Puma is my favorite.

 

 

For those of you who are not familiar with Nick Park/Aardman:  The Aardman Titles are listed here

 

In 1985, Nick Park joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products (including the video for Peter Gabriel‘s “Sledgehammer“, where he worked on the dance scene involving oven-ready chickens). He also had a part in animating the Pee-wee’s Playhouse which featured Paul Reubens. Along with all this, he had finally completed A Grand Day Out, and with that in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called “Lip Synch”. Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards. A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first Oscar.

In 1990 Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed television advertisements for the “Heat Electric” campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among the best advertisements ever shown on British television, as voted (independently) by viewers of the UK’s main commercial channels ITV[4] and Channel 4.[5]”