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.

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[jrs 1]

nick park's animations make me sick just thinking about the amount of tiny movements that he has to make for each second of animation (being in the uk, i guess he's got the advantage that it's 25 rather than 30, but it's still a lot). surely he'd be better off using a 3d modeller, and just animating key frames and then going back and filling in the bits where the key frame interpolation wasn't what he wanted. it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!

it'd also mean no film grain and these online versions would compress better. oh well, maybe ardman are just technologically impaired ;)

oh, and the secret to why they're successful is the stories; not the animation technique[1], as pixar have always pointed out.

[1] see comparisons between shrek and final fantasy