Barry Purves

[2] His film credits include being head animator for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!

[3] Purves' book Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance was released through Focal Press in 2007.

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;[4] he was also credited with co-presenting, in Mandarin, the live final of the Chinese talent search show Super Girl in 2006.

[10] A then-complete collection of Purves' short films, titled His Intimate Lives, is the first release from agnès b. DVD (a collaboration between the eponymous fashion designer and film producer with distributor Potemkine)[11] and was released in France on 17 June 2008.

[12] The video presents each film at its intended aspect ratio but that of the widescreen Achilles, Gilbert and Sullivan and Hamilton Mattress is not anamorphic and, being released in 2008, the more recent Plume and Tchaikovsky are not included.

Models by Barry Purves including William Shakespeare (left), Achilles and Patroclus (front center), and Richard D'Oyly Carte and Arthur Sullivan (right back)