1. Adam Elliot is an independent Australian stop-motion animation writer, director and producer based in Melbourne, Australia.
2. Adam Elliot was born on the 2nd January 1972 in Berwick,Victoria, Australia and is now 44 years old.
3. Adam makes his characters out of clay.
4. Each film takes up to five years to complete.
5. Adam Elliot is not only an Academy Award winning animator, but also one of Australia's funniest, unique speakers and entertainers.
6. Adam has become one of the world's independent filmmakers and 'clay' animators.
7. Adam spent years animating blobs of plasticine in a run down storage unit in the summer heat.
8. The films he has directed are: Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet, Ernie Biscuit, Cinema16: World Short Films, Uncle, Cousin, Brother and Human Behavioural Case Studies
9. Before Adam was famous, He grew up on a prawn farm in the Australian outback.
10. Adam’s father, Noel, worked as an acrobatic clown and his brother Luke died of Asthma.