Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-MotionAnnabelle Honess Roe The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as Shaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-modelled family films, but it has more recently begun to experiment with modern digital filmmaking effects that either emulate 'Claymation' methods or form a hybrid animation style. This unique volume brings together leading film and animation scholars with children's media/animation professionals to explore the production practices behind Aardman's creativity, its history from its early shorts to contemporary hits, how its films fit within traditions of British animation, social realism and fantasy cinema, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its representations of 'British-ness' on screen and the implications of traditional animation methods in a digital era. |
Contents
Peter Lord and | |
Aardman and | |
Aardmans Early Shorts and the British Social Realist | |
Otherness Dysfunction and the Uncanny | |
Animating Literary Corpses in The Pearce Sisters | |
Wallace and Gromit and the British Fantasy Tradition | |
Shaun Timmy Aardman and Childrens | |
Shaun the Sheep Buster Keaton Reborn? Richard Haynes | |
The Dual Nature of Special Effects | |
Performing Authenticity through Clay in the Wallace | |
Aardmans Digital Thumbprint | |
Aardman In an Entanglement with CGI Aylish Wood | |
Select Bibliography | |
Animation Storyboarding as Part of the PreProduction | |
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