High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barry J.C. Purves is an English animator, director and writer of puppet animation and also a designer and director of stage plays, primarily for the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse in Manchester. 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 for feature films. 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), previsualization 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.