aardman

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Brief HistoryAardman Studios is a British based animation studio based in Bristol. Aardman was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The animation studio is best known for making stop motion clay animations. Their most recognisable animation the studio are known for is Wallace And Gromit. Aardman has created 5 feature films which include Chicken Run, Wallace And Gromit, the curse of the ware rabbit, Flushed away, Arthur Christmas and The Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists. Aardman Have also successfully created a CGI animation feature film Flushed away which was brought out in 2006, And Arthur Christmas which was released in 2011.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Key Films/Creations

The first animation that has brought special significance to Aardman is Wallace And Gromit. From December 25, 1989, there has been four 30 minute short films, ten 2 minute shorts and one feature film that ran for 85 minutes that has been created by Aardman. The animations were directed and created by Nick Park.

The first Wallace And Gromit episode ‘A Grand Dat Out’ was released 25th december, 1989 and ran for 24 minutes. The episode was directed by Nick Park and starred Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Wallace And Gromit

In this episode, Wallace and Gromit are deciding on where to go for their upcoming bank holiday. Wallace, who loves cheese and crackers gets up to prepare tea with the cheese and crackers only to discover that Wallace and Gromit are out of cheese. Wallace decides they should go somewhere where there its lots of cheese ultimately choosing the moon since everybody knows that the moon is made from cheese. The two characters set off to construct a rocket in their basement which will fly them to the moon. On completion, wallace lights the fuse to the rocket and with only a minute countdown, They realize they have forgot to pack the crackers. Gromit rushes out the rocket and into the kitchen to get the crackers where he makes it back to the rocket with a few seconds to spare. Once apon arrival to the moon made of cheese, they set up a picnic where they try out the cheese where they realize its something they have never tried before. They move their picnic to another spot where they encounter a mechanism which has strong resemblance to a cooker. Wallace puts a coin in the machine only to find out that the cooker grows robotic arms and comes to life. The cooker discovers the picnic which wallace and Gromit have left behind as well as their rocket. Agitated by Wallace’s actions of illegally parking the rocket and littering, the cooker approaches wallace to bludgeon him, just as the cooke is about to strike wallace, Gromit notices it runs out of money and it shuts down. When Wallace and Gromit decide to depart from the cheese planet, The cooker comes back to life only to discover that the rocket is leaving for earth in which he would like to go to fufil his dream of skiing. The cooker breaks into the rocket and wanders around the dark interior of the rocket where it lights a match near the fuel tank causing an explosion, The cooker gets thrown across the planet as the rocket launches and throws of two pieces of discarded metal which the cooker realizes they can be used as skis where he happily skis down to surface of the cheese planet waving goodbye to Wallace and Gromit on their return to earth.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Chicken Run Chicken Run was a stop motion animation that was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. The film was released 30 June, 2000 in the united kingdom and starred Julia Sawalha as the voice of ginger, The ring leader of the chickens, and Mel Gibson as the voice of Rocky, an american rooster who crashes in to the farm whilst trying to escape from a circus.

Mrs. Tweedy operates a chicken farm, where most of the birds have resigned themselves to a short and uneventful life of producing eggs and ending up as the main course of someone's Sunday dinner. But when Rocky, a rooster from America, arrives on the farm, things begin to change. Rocky soon finds romance with a hen named Ginger who longs for a better life and has been trying to find a way out of the farm for some time; together they devise a plan to escape to freedom. However, Rocky and Ginger soon find themselves racing against the clock when Mrs. Tweedy decides it's time to turn the entire flock into chicken pies.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Key Character A key character in Aardman studio development is Morph, who is a animated plasticine model that first appeared in 1977 in several english television programs including Take Hart and The Amazing Adventures Of Morph. Morph has made appearances in several televisions programs from 1977 to present day. Television programs Morph appeared on included Hartbeat, SMart, On Your Marks, Ashes To Ashes and Ricky’s Radical reinventions. The importance Morph brings to the animation studio is that it was the first animated character to be produced for the BBC which then made Aardman animation later famous for Wallace And Gromit. Morph’s appeal to the audience is that he is very entertaining for all ages, he was animated with a very jolly and exuberant personality. Morph’s looks are very basic and minimal but very iconic.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Key Technology Aardman use an identifiable animation style, They are most famous for clay stop motion animation. Clay stop motion is an animation technique used to manipulate an object moving on its own. This technique is created when the object is moved very slightly between a photograph, which then played back at full speed gives the illusion of the object moving by itself.

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardman_Animationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_(character)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grand_Day_Outhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Run

Tuesday, 1 May 2012