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New Wallace and Gromit Episodes Coming Online
chachi5000 noted that
CNN is running a story about
Aardman releasing
Wallace and Gromit Shorts Online.
There will be a dozen of the one minute clips featuring the awesome
plasticine duo. Also bits about the feature film coming in (sigh) a few years.
Anyone who hasn't seen the existing Wallace and Gromit trilogy is
missing out.
Well, obviously they won't be telling whole stories -- they'll be individual gags. To save you the bother of actually reading the story: the idea is that each one is a demonstration (by Gromit) of one of Wallace's inventions.
Feathers McGraw, as far as I recall.
Cheers,
Ian
They already have lots of other stuff here, at AtomFilms, but this is reallly cool! I love Aardman Animations, they are great! Some of my favorites are Creature Comforts (done by Nick Park) and Pib and Pog (two little kids playing around with sulfuric acid, lol, priceless).
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
Actually Aardman has been doing claymation all the time for more traditional medium as well, it's not just the net, and it's not dying anytime soon. Chicken Run starring the voice of Mel Gibson was a good example, which did very nicely at the box office a year or two ago, despite not being quite as good as Wallace & Gromit.
The three Wallace & Gromit shorts are classics, frequently shown on TV in many countries. Two of them won the Oscar for animated short films. There's also a fine DVD with all three stories available, with Nick Park's early animation work as a bonus. R1 DVD even has a commentary tracks by Nick Park himself. Highly recommended stuff!
Not too long ago I saw Aardman's pretty recent TV-show Rex the Runt. It's only something like 13 10-minute episodes, but it was completely hilarious, very trippy and psychedelic. There should be second series coming as well, and I can hardly wait for it being shown on TV here.
For all ye to know cum is latin for "with."
This could then translate as "toaster with TV," and all the sexually active minds would stop.
What a notion!
Da comp cant tell u da emotional story.It can give u da exact mathematical design,but whatz missin is da eyebrows. -FZ
The amount of detail that the animators put into Wallace and Gromit is incredible. You can watch the video repeatedly and find something new. Like the news papers always fortell what the future may contain.
;)
A particularly advanced example of this is the news paper in "A Grand Day Out". If you read it you'll find out about Feathers McGraw who is in The Wrong Trousers which was completed a few years later.
Also, in "A Close Shave" you can see Feathers Was Here written on the Jail cell that Gromit is in. It does seem that Feathers is perhaps one of the most exciting characters that was created.
Consider that it's a bowling ball but from the two blank little eyes you can tell it's evil and it doesn't even have eyebrows but when it rubs the flippers together you can sense it like the evil from Sauron.
Just a small other point, the hole in the eyes of the characters are so that the animators can put a needle in and move the direction that the eyes look.
Hope this has been interesting, informative, insightful and funny
internet like monkeys'
The hidden gems in W&G are also wonderful. - Grommit reads a newspaper entitled "Dog Reads Paper" - Check out the name of W&G's wash service in "A Close Shave" for a cute pun (too clever to post here!) - Penguin replaces Grommit's framed picture of a bone with a framed picture of a sardine! So many more... if you haven't seen these before, you simply must purchase them!
A few years ago, I saw a screening of W&G's 'The Wrong Trousers' at a small arts festival over here in Belgium...
The big thing there was that the movie was being 'scored' by a not-very-well-known post-rock-kinda band called de.portables...
You should have seen it! It rocked like hell, timing was perfect for every scene, for every move... it was very emotional in the scene where Gromit was leaving, suspenseful when Wallace was stealing the diamond, and the train chase scene had to be seen and heard to be believed...
aardman should get in touch with these guys and let them score the vegetable plot movie!!!
But in the mean time, download some of their music (legally) from here and from the site mentioned above...
subtly hidded on the Aardman site under the banner 'Trade' are about 20 commercials plus some clips from movies. Its got some of their recent CG material too. http://www.aardman.com/trade nice flash intro...ahem