[1] Having only a slight interest in animation as a child, Suzie graduated with a degree in the sciences from University College London.
[2] However, believing not to be skilled enough in science, she switched to the humanities and began work as an English teacher at an Indian woman's shelter and orphanage in her mid-twenties.
[3] Templeton was given an image of Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit by her mother, which inspired her to begin work with sculpture, models, and puppets for stop motion animation.
[2] After graduating from RCA, Templeton began work on a modern interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Templeton was approached by film maker and producer Hugh Welchman and conductor Mark Stephenson asking her to create an animated sequence to be played during a live orchestral performance.
[9][3][10] In 2020, the silence was finally broken with news of plans for a feature called Spitsbergen and a medium-length piece entitled Return to Nix.