Tim Watts on Margaret Thatcher, puppets, and Spitting Image

Tim Watts is an animator, designer and director whose film work includes The Corpse Bride, Arthur Christmas and Rise of The Guardians. He is currently working at DreamWorks in Los Angeles. FLIP asked him to talk a little about the making of the Margaret Thatcher puppet at Spitting Image back in the 1980s.

Farewell Lady Thatcher

People in England of my generation call themselves "Thatcher's children". Whether you are left or right politically, her influence was undeniable as she re-shaped the dialogue of both politics and economics in Britain.

She was mercilessly satirised by cartoonists, especially by the TV series Spitting Image that seemed made especially for her and her confrontational style of politics.