Purves is a British animator who has made his six short films (see filmography below), each of which has been nominated for awards (including Academy Award and British Academy Film Awards nominations),Short Film Winners: 1993 Oscars he has also directed and animated for several television programs and over seventy advertisements, title sequences and animated insert sequences. His film credits include being head animator for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (before the decision was made to use computer animation in place of stop motion), previsualisation animation director for Peter Jackson's King Kong
