Word: gromit
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...likely recognize his past characters upon sight: the despondent zoo captives in his Oscar-winning 1989 short, “Creature Comforts,” the Great Escaping cluckers of “Chicken Run,” and the beloved man-and-best-friend duo Wallace and Gromit...
...latest work to sprout from Park’s fertile mind is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit...
...vegetable patches. This is much more problematic than it sounds; the local vegetable competition is coming up and every resident has poured their blood, sweat, and tears (and in the local vicar’s case, holy water) into their colossal produce. The townspeople turn to Wallace and Gromit, now head of the pest-control company Anti-Pesto, for the solution...
...rather, thumbmade, since the animators are encouraged to leave their personal imprints, literally, on the characters. "Wallace and Gromit are designed to be animated with your hands and your fingers as much as possible," says Teresa Drilling, an American who joined Aardman for Chicken Run. "They've got just the right sort of nooks for your thumbs, so that gives it a very specific organic feel--thumby but funny...
...their inner child, the boy (or girl) genius who loved to play with clay. And they know they are part of a glorious anachronism, an ancient craft. "I love The Incredibles," Box, a co-director, says of Pixar Animation Studios' CG hit, "but that's like a Ferrari. Wallace & Gromit is a massive antique tractor. We want that thumby, handmade, handcrafted look...