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Barry Purves is an English animator, director and screenwriter of puppet animation television and cinema and theatre designer and director, primarily for the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse in Manchester.

Models by Barry Purves including William Shakespeare (left) and Achilles and Patroclus at the front
Known as one of Britain's most celebrated animators on account of his six short films (see filmography below), each of which has been nominated for numerous international awards (including Academy Award and British Academy Film Awards nominations), he has also directed and animated for several television programs and over seventy advertisements, title sequences and animated insert sequences. His film credits include being head animator for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (before the decision was made to use computer animation in place of stop motion), previsualisation animation director for Peter Jackson's King Kong and being "casually involved," simultaneous to this, with animation for the same director's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King during the 2003 film's post-production.

Purves has taught animation, made documentaries, written articles for magazines and books and his own book Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance was released through Focal Press in 2007. He has held workshops about animation in several colleges in Europe and beyond as well as major North American studios such as DreamWorks, Pacific Data Images, Pixar and Will Vinton Studios (now Laika Entertainment House). Around 1996 he made plans to shoot a full-length film of Noye's Fludde, Benjamin Britten's opera version of a mystery play about the Deluge; one of his strangest credits was co-presenting, in Mandarin, the live final of the Chinese talent search show Super Girl in 2006.

A selection of his films, and those with animation by Ray Harryhausen, the bolexbrothers, Suzie Templeton and others, were included alongside those of Kihachirō Kawamoto himself in the Watershed Media Centre season Kawamoto: The Puppet Master in 2008. wiki

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La filmografía de Barry Purves es mundialmente conocida en los festivales de animación. Barry J C Purves (Woodbridge, Reino Unido, 1955), un aspirante a actor, se convirtió inesperadamente en animador tras realizar una prueba con marionetas para Cosgrove Hall Films, donde produjo trabajos comerciales durante más de diez años. Su revelación llegó con Next (1990), realizado para Aardman, y desde que funda su productora Bare Board Films se han sucedido en su filmografía obras maestras como Screenplay (1992), Rigoletto (1993), Achilles (1995) o Tchaikovsky (2011). Sus marionetas tienen gran realismo y vehiculan emociones poderosas; pero, sobre todo, los filmes personales de Purves establecen relaciones privilegiadas con toda la herencia de las artes escénicas, desde el teatro griego hasta el teatro clásico, la ópera, el ballet, e incluso el teatro de marionetas Bunraku. Purves no ha dejado de ser un artista polifacético que alterna sus filmes personales con producciones para el público infantil, y en años recientes ha diseñado y dirigido numerosos montajes teatrales, aplaudidos por crítica y público. En la siguiente conversación Barry J C Purves nos desvela las claves de su proceso creativo en la animación, y su personal relación con el teatro. conadeanimacion.blogs

Director (10 credits)
2013 Toby's Travelling Circus (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Parade (2013) ... (as Barry J C Purves)
- Toby Climbs Up (2013) ... (as Barry J C Purves)
2011 Tchaikovsky - An Elegy (Short)
2011 Plume (Short)
2007 Rupert Bear (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Rupert and the Flying Dragon (2007) ... (as Barry JC Purves)
2001 Hamilton Mattress (TV Short) (as Barry J.C. Purves)
1998 Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models (Short) (as Barry J.C. Purves)
1995 Achilles (Short)
1995 Operavox (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Rigoletto (1995) ... (as Barry J.C. Purves)
1993 Guión (Short) (as Barry J.C. Purves)
1990 Next (Short) (as Barry J.C. Purves)
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Enlaces completados:
OK Hamilton Mattress (Barry Purves, 2002)
OK Operavox (VV. DD., 1993)

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