Suzie Templeton from Romsey has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Portsmouth after making some breakthrough animation.

The BAFTA-winning director and filmmaker burst onto the international animation scene with her multi-award winning film Stanley, a surreal and darkly comic story of a man who falls in love with a cabbage.

She followed this with the phenomenally successful and Bafta-award winning Dog, a heart-breaking and chilling film about a boy coming to terms with the death of his mother.

And she won an Oscar in Los Angeles this year for best animated short film for an adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's classic 1936 tale, Peter and the Wolf.

The 29-minute Anglo-Polish production cost £1m and is accompanied by London's Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in front of 6,000 people at the end of 2006.

Ms Templeton graduated in 1999 with a BA (Hons) degree in animation from the University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham.