Tom Gasek has over 27 years of award winning professional stop motion animation experience as an animator and director. He worked with directors Will Vinton, Art Clokey and Henry Selick. At Aardman Animations he contributed animation to Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit short, “The Wrong Trousers” and the Peter Lord / Nick Park Feature, “Chicken Run.” Gasek co-directed and animated the “Inside-Out Boy” for Nickelodeon, which is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most recently, Tom has worked on Aardman’s “Creature Comforts America”, Sony Bravia’s “Play-Doh” and Laika Studio’s “Coraline.” He just completed a book for Focal Press called “Frame by Frame Stop Motion.” Tom teaches Stop Motion Animation, Acting for Animation and the Business of Animation in the School of Film & Animation at R.I.T.