I am old enough to remember Creature Comforts and Wallace and Gromit coming onto network TV for the first time and being blown away by how the dialogue drove the animation. Peter Sallis was the perfect voice for Wallace w, without a doubt. Creature Comforts was the same but with a more improv' style which worked again. Thanks for another brilliant piece.
I have to go back and look up the Creature Comforts episodes. I feel like I used to watch them with friends in high school but it's time to revisit them now.
The Heat Electric ads were huge in my childhood! When one came on TV whoever saw it would shout and all the other siblings would come running to see it.
Thank you so much for this. I remember watching "Creature Comforts" the short back when it won, and seeing it again made me smile. The series is brilliant, and they are all on YouTube in the Aardman channel. I suppose they make money off of the ads.
I am old enough to remember Creature Comforts and Wallace and Gromit coming onto network TV for the first time and being blown away by how the dialogue drove the animation. Peter Sallis was the perfect voice for Wallace w, without a doubt. Creature Comforts was the same but with a more improv' style which worked again. Thanks for another brilliant piece.
Thanks, Jon! Aardman is fantastic and even this early work holds up remarkably well. Hoping to cover a Wallace and Gromit film here at some point.
I have to go back and look up the Creature Comforts episodes. I feel like I used to watch them with friends in high school but it's time to revisit them now.
They're still great -- and luckily Aardman has put pretty much all of this stuff on YouTube.
I know what I'm doing today then.😎
The Heat Electric ads were huge in my childhood! When one came on TV whoever saw it would shout and all the other siblings would come running to see it.
This is awesome -- thanks for sharing this memory!
Thank you so much for this. I remember watching "Creature Comforts" the short back when it won, and seeing it again made me smile. The series is brilliant, and they are all on YouTube in the Aardman channel. I suppose they make money off of the ads.
Aardman is awesome for making so much of its old work (even the '70s stuff) available online for free. Glad you enjoyed the piece!
Marvellous.
Thank you!