There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.