Tim Watts is a British short filmmaker and animator, best known for his work on The Big Story, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, for which he won an Annie Award.
Tim Watts began as a caricaturist and designer on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image where he met his now longtime collaborator, David Stoten.
It was at Spitting Image that Watts and Stoten had the idea to extend their caricature work to a full-figure puppet.
After deciding on Kirk Douglas as the subject, the pair took the idea to Roger Law (executive producer for Spitting Image).
[2] Watts won the BAFTA award with David Stoten in 1994 for The Big Story.