Posted on 06/18/2020 at 08:28 AM
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So have you ever seen Creature Comforts? That's what Aardman did before Wallace and Gromit and it won the Academy Award. A Grand Day Out was nominated, but didn't win. The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave both won the award, but the last Wallce and Gromit short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, didn't even get nominated I don't think. It's not Wallace and Gromit, but Wat's Pig also won the award one year, and it's a good one, too.
Like Mega Man, Wallace and Gromit was so popular that even its spinoffs have spinoffs! The main spinoff is Shaun the Sheep, which even has two movies. I don't know if we'll get the second movie anytime soon, thanks to this pandemic crap. Shaun the Sheep has a spinoff starring little Timmy Sheep, which is called Timmy Time and aimed at preschoolers.
TellTale even had a four part Wallace and Gromit point and click adventure series that was really good. Each one felt like a short you could play. This was back when TellTale made REAL games, not 'follow your nose' adventures.
At Christmastime, see if you can watch Aardman's Robbie the Reindeer and its sequel. They're really good, too.
Right after college I took a just for fun day class on clay animation. It took us ALL DAY to make a few seconds of crappily animated clay, so I have a lot of respect for the folks who did that for real. The lady in the class animated a boy making a snowman, the other guy operated the camera, and I animated a snake coming out of the ice, sniffing around, and biting the carrot off the snowman's face and going back under the ice. Then the snowman frowned because he had no nose!
And I think that's all I have to say about clay animation!