Unimaginable Nick Park “These are such surreal cartoons, very cool,” was the first thing I heard about Nick Park’s work. The cartoons turned out to be masterpieces that received three Oscars, and their creator, Park, was a modest English madman from Preston. It was he who was first nominated for an Oscar in the field of animation, and his characters Wallis and Gromit, after their idiotic flight to the moon for cheese, began to wander from series to series, acquiring legends.