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...second a day. That's about as much of this stop-motion animation epic as any one of the film's 30 animators at Aardman Studios in Bristol, England, could produce. Stop motion, as used in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Park's 2000 hit Chicken Run, is essentially a series of still photographs (running through the movie projector at 24 frames a second), and each tableau, which may contain dozens of Plasticine characters, must be posed and shot before the next one is begun. The animator's job is to get the humor and humanity in each shot...
Animation Aardman Animations www.aardman.com The official site of the studio that created Wallace, the hapless yet well-meaning, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his faithful canine companion, is a treasure trove of video clips (click on Show Reel) and links to character sites including www.wandg.com, where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Wallace & Gromit's first feature-length movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due in theaters in October...
...website. It's "a great step to whatever the next thing is," says Miranda Dear, "which, of course, we all hope is a feature film." On this subject, Elliot grows as quiet as one of his Claymation creatures, before pointing out that it was 20 years before Aardman Studios (of Wallace and Gromit fame) embarked on Chicken Run. Oscar or not, one suspects Harvie the movie will be quicker to see the light...
...Brattle is running this collection of notable animated shorts all weekend; the program includes work from Aardman Animations (the makers of Wallace and Gromit) and “Beavis and Butt-head”’s Mike Judge. But the film that makes this program a must-see is Don Hertzfeldt’s brilliant satire Rejected, a nominee for the Best Animated Short Oscar in 2001. Rejected purports to track its animator’s unraveling as his absurdist shorts go unappreciated in the commercial world; it’s black, bizarre and riotous. It may also...
...team of 25 animators toiled to achieve two or three seconds of footage a day, as Lord and Park patrolled the tiny sets like the barons of Brobdingnag. The Aardman shop buzzed with the work of painters, press molders and a gent known as the mouth-and-beak-replacement coordinator...