Truly one of the top animation teams in the world -- even beyond Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit, stuff like Shaun the Sheep and their recent Robin Robin is just great. It's incredible how they've kept it up and (as you mentioned) kept it weird all this time.
omg this post was so great! I loved Chicken Run as a kid in 2012-- one of my school teachers did a Great Escape/Chicken Run double feature for my middle school British culture elective class (it was not a normal school lol). Each film is a landmark piece of cinema in their own right but I had no idea about the additional production process of Chicken! So this was super insightful!!!
I think the film that deviated most noticably from Aardman's trademark style is Flushed Away (2006) which was entirely done in computer animation, albeit for practical reasons. Sublime post as always!
Thanks, Samuel! Much appreciated. And Flushed Away definitely stands out in the Aardman canon for its CG style -- it's one of the films of theirs we still need to watch. Hoping it's as good as the others!
Just listened to this, great detailed post. Am so glad you mentioned Creature Comforts as I was a kid when these came out in England and loved watching them. Another great post, thank you.
Thanks as always, Jon. Creature Comforts is an excellent series/concept in its own right -- we had fun when we studied and wrote about it earlier this year.
Love Aardman. And Chicken Run was great. W&G are still my faves, but Chicken Run was loads of fun and looked right. And they kept it weird.
Truly one of the top animation teams in the world -- even beyond Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit, stuff like Shaun the Sheep and their recent Robin Robin is just great. It's incredible how they've kept it up and (as you mentioned) kept it weird all this time.
I just added Shaun to my queue, I had missed it. I'll look for Robin Robin
omg this post was so great! I loved Chicken Run as a kid in 2012-- one of my school teachers did a Great Escape/Chicken Run double feature for my middle school British culture elective class (it was not a normal school lol). Each film is a landmark piece of cinema in their own right but I had no idea about the additional production process of Chicken! So this was super insightful!!!
Ah, this is awesome to hear! Thank you -- so glad you enjoyed it.
Reading this was such a pleasure. So much so, I’ll read it again later during lunch.
Wow, thank you so much! That's wonderful to hear.
I think the film that deviated most noticably from Aardman's trademark style is Flushed Away (2006) which was entirely done in computer animation, albeit for practical reasons. Sublime post as always!
Thanks, Samuel! Much appreciated. And Flushed Away definitely stands out in the Aardman canon for its CG style -- it's one of the films of theirs we still need to watch. Hoping it's as good as the others!
Just listened to this, great detailed post. Am so glad you mentioned Creature Comforts as I was a kid when these came out in England and loved watching them. Another great post, thank you.
Thanks as always, Jon. Creature Comforts is an excellent series/concept in its own right -- we had fun when we studied and wrote about it earlier this year.