Peter Peake studied BA Graphic Design at Bath College of Higher Education and began working for UK based Aardman Animations in 1992. During this time his work included key animation on Nick Park’s ‘A Close Shave’, Richard Goleszowski’s ‘Rex the Runt (Series 1)’ and several TV commercials. In 1994 he made his first short film for Aardman, ‘Pib and Pog’, which won the McLaren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA.

His next film ‘Humdrum’, completed in 1998, also won the McLaren Award and was nominated for both an Oscar and a BAFTA. Following this he wrote and directed a pilot for Channel 4 in the UK entitled ‘Captain Sarcastic’ and directed three episodes of ‘Rex the Runt (Series 2)’. In 2002 he directed the half hour special ‘Robbie the Reindeer II – Legend of the Lost Tribe’ for Comic Relief and BBC Worldwide. The cast included the voices of Jeff Goldblum, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais and Sir David Attenborough and the film won an International Emmy in 2003. Also in this year he made ‘Out of Joint’, a short film for South West Screen which was shortlisted for Best Short Film and Best Comedy in the British Animation Awards 2004.

In 2006 he wrote and directed a series of five one-minute episodes of ‘Pib and Pog’, one of which was selected for official competition in the Annecy Animation Festival along with his title sequence for the British comedy series ‘That Mitchell & Webb Look’. He wrote and directed ‘JellyBeats’, an online series of short films in 2008 based on characters he created and in 2011 completed ‘Pythagasaurus’, his next short with Aardman with whom he continues to direct commercials and other projects. In 2015 he began production on ‘Take Rabbit’, a self-funded short film which he completed at the end of 2017.