Barry Jc Purves

Barry Purves is a stop-motion animator and director with more than thirty years' experience. His films have won more than 60 major international awards, including Grand Prix's, Best Director, Best Film, and Oscar and BAFTA nominations. He has been involved with such diverse works as The Wind in the Willows , The Pied Piper of Hamelin , Chorlton and the Wheelies , Rupert Bear , Mars Attacks! , King Kong and Hamilton Mattress . Barry has held master classes in most of the major animation studios...See more

Barry Purves is a stop-motion animator and director with more than thirty years' experience. His films have won more than 60 major international awards, including Grand Prix's, Best Director, Best Film, and Oscar and BAFTA nominations. He has been involved with such diverse works as The Wind in the Willows , The Pied Piper of Hamelin , Chorlton and the Wheelies , Rupert Bear , Mars Attacks! , King Kong and Hamilton Mattress . Barry has held master classes in most of the major animation studios and colleges around the world and is the author of Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance . See less