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New Wallace and Gromit Episodes Coming Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the porridge-today-gromit dept.

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.

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  1. Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by jwlidtnet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is nice to know that despite the preponderence of computers in animation today, something that's this "old-school" can still occur (albeit online-only, I guess).

    May clay-mation never die.

    -J

  2. details, details, details by mattdm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing I love about the Wallace and Gromit shorts is their attention to detail. Every scene has interesting little bits in the background -- stuff going on that you might catch on the fourth or fifth viewing. I'm afraid that in stretching things to a full-length feature, some of this will be lost. Chicken Run, while fun enough, disappointed me for exactly this reason. It was kinda funny, and had some amusing references to other movies -- and certainly they put a lot of work into it -- but it just doesn't have the *depth* that Wallace and Gromit do. I hope Nick Park will prove my fears unfounded.

  3. My 2-year-old and I rejoice by Euphonious+Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The Wallace & Gromit trilogy are the only videos my two-year-old and I can both watch, and both enjoy equally. She'll find new things to like about them year after year.

    How many things made today can you say that about? (Not a rhetorical question: suggestions please!)

  4. Re:nausiating by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!

    Apparently there is some advantage, otherwise Nick Park wouldn't spend so much time working in plastercine.

    I've seen "Wrong Trousers", I've seen "Final Fantasy". Both were created from a different medium (stop animation vs computer graphics). Both movies are great examples of what can be done with the medium.

    But Wrong Trousers had a depth to the animation-- There were things going on in the background... the expression on the characters faces... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it. My 2 year old Nephew knew it.

    Final Fantasy was a fun and groundbreaking movie, but it lacked detail. Yes, their hair moved realistically, but the characters were cold, their expressions were hard to read, the background scenes were cluttered and hard to make out. The only reason I could tell that there was any attraction between the lead women & lead man was because of the dialogue. If the mute was on, I couldn't tell you *what* was going on. Not so with the Wallace & Gromit movies...

    Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).

    --
    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  5. My how they have grown... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    The show has sure come a long way since the days of two kids playing in the garden with a steaming mound of dog feces.

    Keep up the good work.

    AC