"in Academy Award-winning short films such as ""Closed Mondays"" (Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner, 1974) , ""The Sand Castle"" (1977), ""Creature Comforts"" (Aardman Animations, 1989), and all four Wallace and Gromit short films, created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. Aardman also created ""The Presentators"", a series of one-minute clay-animation/CGI short films aired on Nickelodeon UK. Some clay animations appear online, on such sites as Newgrounds. In addition, many of the Rankin/Bass holiday specials were clay-animated. Several computer games have also been produced using clay animation, including ""The Neverhood"", ""Clay Fighter"", ""Platypus"", Clay Moon (iPhone app), and ""Primal Rage"". Television"
"number of animation directors, such as Tim Burton, Henry Selick, Wes Anderson, and Travis Knight. Dominating children's TV stop-motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's ""Gumby"" series (1955–1989) and its feature film, """" (1992, 1995), using both freeform and character clay animation. Clokey started his adventures in clay with a 1953 freeform clay short film called ""Gumbasia"" (1953) which shortly thereafter propelled him into his more structured ""Gumby"" TV series. In partnership with the United Lutheran Church in America, he also produces ""Davey and Goliath"" (1960–2004). In November 1959, the first episode of ""Sandmännchen"" was shown on"
"Geoff Hurst, and Stanley Matthews. Both Ramsbottom and Tottington are small towns near Bury in Greater Manchester, and are the names of love interests of Wallace. The nostalgic quality of Wallace and Gromit's world has been compared to 1950s Beanotown. The ""Wallace and Gromit"" films are shot using the stop motion animation technique. After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. In common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace and"
"Gumbasia Gumbasia, a 3-minute, 10-second short film released on September 2, 1955, was the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey, who went on to create the classic series, ""Gumby"" and ""Davey and Goliath"", using the same technique. Clokey created ""Gumbasia"" while studying at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić. He used a ping-pong table in his father's garage as the surface upon which to work the clay. The film was a surreal short of pulsating shapes and lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Walt Disney's ""Fantasia"". ""Gumbasia"" was created in"
"Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a series of ten Wallace and Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's skeptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations. Episodes were broadcast individually on BBC One throughout the Christmas period, 2002. They were subsequently released on a limited-edition BBC VHS and Region 2 DVD. The series was also included as a bonus feature on some DVD releases of """", and can be found on the"
"""Gary & Mike"", for UPN in 2001. Another individual who found fame in clay animation is Nick Park, who created the characters Wallace and Gromit. In addition to a series of award-winning shorts and featurettes, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the feature-length outing """". ""Chicken Run"", to date, is the highest grossing stop motion animated movie ever grossing nearly $225 million worldwide. The BBC commissioned thirteen episodes of stop frame animated ""Summerton Mill"" in 2004 as inserts into their flagship pre-school program, ""Tikkabilla"". Created and produced by Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson, the series was"
"as the second animated feature film produced by an American studio after Walt Disney Productions' ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", as Paramount had commissioned the feature in response to the success of that film. The sequences for the film were directed by Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Tom Palmer, Grim Natwick, William Henning, Roland Crandall, Thomas Johnson, Robert Leffingwell, Frank Kelling, Winfield Hoskins, and Orestes Calpini. On November 5, 1699, Lemuel Gulliver washes onto the beach of Lilliput after a storm at sea and ultimate shipwreck. Following the calm of the storm, the town crier Gabby stumbles across Gulliver in"
"Gumby and the others meet other characters who George Pal animated, such as the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Alka-Seltzer mascot Speedy. Gumby then thanks George Pal for making all this possible, and everybody cheers. The screen pans out and shows a gremlin, who looks at the audience, says ""George Pal!"" in a raspy voice, then climbs up a support beam while laughing hysterically. In addition to the film shorts listed above, the following Pal film shorts are also included in the 2000 DVD edition from Image Entertainment and the 2013 Blu-ray edition from B2MP: ""What Ho She Bumps"", ""Mr. Strauss"
"Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce a faux motion blur. Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like ""A Close Shave"" takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace and Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day per animator. The feature-length ""The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"" took 15 months to make. Some effects, particularly the fire, smoke, and floating bunnies in"
"Rocky Hollow Rocky Hollow was a 1983 stop motion animation children's television series made in Wales. The show was narrated by Peter Sallis, who later became the voice of Wallace in ""Wallace and Gromit"". This was the first children's television show to be produced by Bumper Films for S4C. The firm later made ""Fireman Sam"", ""Joshua Jones"" & ""Starhill Ponies"" for the BBC. These were in production with S4C, Mike Young Productions and Prism Art and Design Ltd. ""Rocky Hollow"" first appeared as ""Deri Deg"" in Welsh on S4C in 1983. The Welsh series finished in 1984, and later in"
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British stop-motion animated comedy film produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. United International Pictures distributed the film in the United Kingdom, and it was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures in the United States. It was directed by Nick Park and Steve Box as the second feature-length film by Aardman after ""Chicken Run"" (2000). The movie was released in Sydney, Australia on 4 September 2005, before being released in cinemas early in the"
"Art Babbitt Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as an animation director and animator, and also developed the character of Goofy. Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as ""The Three Little Pigs"" (1933), ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Fantasia"" (1940), and ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" (1964), among others. Outside of Disney, he also animated ""The Wise Quacking Duck"" (1943) for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Babbitt was"
"early experiments in limited animation television cartoons. These cartoons usually were about five minutes in length and were episodic in nature, allowing stations to flexibly program them. One of the first cartoons produced expressly for television was ""Crusader Rabbit"", a creation of Alexander Anderson and Jay Ward. A small studio in Florida was responsible for another early adventure serial, ""Colonel Bleep"". Often, existing programs would be a launching ground for new cartoon characters. In 1956, the ""Howdy Doody"" show aired the first ""Gumby"" clay animated cartoon from creator Art Clokey. Sam Singer earned a certain degree of infamy for his"
"Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is an episodic graphic adventure game based around the characters of ""Wallace and Gromit"" created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The game was developed and published by Telltale Games. It consists of four episodes, which were released to Microsoft Windows from March 23 to July 30, 2009 and to Xbox 360 from May 27 to November 4, 2009. Episodes are developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Aardman Animations to develop the story, characters, and setting. Players control both Wallace and Gromit at times through the gameplay. Ben Whitehead,"
"Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo is a platform video game developed by Frontier Developments and published by BAM! Entertainment (European distribution being handled by Acclaim Entertainment) for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. It is the first video game featuring Aardman Animations' characters Wallace & Gromit and also features the voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis reprising his role. As Gromit, the player must use Wallace's bizarre inventions - including the ""Porridge Gun"", ""Turnip Launcher"", ""Springy Boots"", and ""Gyrocopter"" - to battle Feathers McGraw's robotic minions and rescue the baby animals in"
"as Wallace and Gromit; they also produced a notable music video for ""Sledgehammer"", a song by Peter Gabriel. During 1986 to 1991, Churchill Films produced ""The Mouse and the Motorcycle"", ""Runaway Ralph"", and ""Ralph S. Mouse"" for ABC television. The shows featured stop-motion characters combined with live action, based on the books of Beverly Cleary. John Clark Matthews was animation director, with Justin Kohn, Joel Fletcher, and Gail Van Der Merwe providing character animation. From 1986 to 2000, over 150 five-minute episodes of ""Pingu"", a Swiss children's comedy were produced by Trickfilmstudio. In the 1990s Trey Parker and Matt Stone"
"Gumbys Gumbys are recurring characters in ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", characterised by a very distinctive appearance. Gumbys are portrayed with toothbrush moustaches, wear handkerchiefs, knotted at each corner, on their heads, wire-rimmed spectacles, braces, Fair Isle knitted tank tops, 1950s shirts rolled up to the elbows (without the detachable collar), trousers rolled up above their knees, and gumboots. The characters usually hold their arms in an ape-like position, speak slowly and forcefully, and pronounce words syllable by syllable. Though created by John Cleese, the Gumbys were most often played by Michael Palin, although Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Cleese also"
"Gumbys Gumbys are recurring characters in ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", characterised by a very distinctive appearance. Gumbys are portrayed with toothbrush moustaches, wear handkerchiefs, knotted at each corner, on their heads, wire-rimmed spectacles, braces, Fair Isle knitted tank tops, 1950s shirts rolled up to the elbows (without the detachable collar), trousers rolled up above their knees, and gumboots. The characters usually hold their arms in an ape-like position, speak slowly and forcefully, and pronounce words syllable by syllable. Though created by John Cleese, the Gumbys were most often played by Michael Palin, although Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Cleese also"
"and assistant animators Hiroshi Tabata and Fumiko Magari also worked on the film for Rankin/Bass, but are uncredited. Known as stop-motion animation, it was the same approach used in RKO's ""King Kong"", Art Clokey's ""Gumby"" and ""Davey and Goliath"", and many other films, commercials and TV specials. In partnership with MOM and Dentsu, Rankin/Bass had created several ""Animagic"" productions, including the syndicated television series ""The New Adventures of Pinocchio"", the enormously successful Christmas television special ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" and their first full-length film ""Willy McBean and his Magic Machine"". Classic monster films were enjoying a resurgence in popularity in"
"Clampett. Scribner turned out to be arguably Clampett's best animator. Clampett classics such as ""A Tale of Two Kitties"" (1942), ""Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs"" (1943), and ""The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"" (1946) showcase some of his greatest work: his trademark ""Lichty style"" of animation. Clampett left Warner Bros. in 1945 to pursue a career in puppetry and television. Not much is known about where Scribner was between 1946-1949 (although he does some animation on two McKimson cartoons starring Porky and Daffy in 1947). In 1950, Scribner returned to Warner Bros. under Robert McKimson's unit. His animation was tamed"
"film was a 1953 three-minute student film called ""Gumbasia"", a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's ""Fantasia"". ""Gumbasia"" was created in the ""kinesthetic"" style taught by Clokey's USC professor Slavko Vorkapić, described as ""massaging of the eye cells."" Much of Gumby's look and feel was inspired by this technique of camera movements and editing. In 1955, Clokey showed ""Gumbasia"" to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by animating figures into children's stories. Clokey moved forward, producing a pilot episode featuring the character Gumby. The"
"UK. Produced in partnership between Aardman Animations and VisitEngland, the campaign featured a series of animated postcards documenting their trip. In 2018 they made a cameo appearance in the ITV special, ""We Are Most Amused and Amazed"" for Prince Charles 70th birthday. Wallace and Gromit spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities, Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports children's hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. In July 2013, 80 giant fibreglass decorated sculptures of Gromit were distributed around Bristol as part of a Nick Park-inspired project to"
"Art Clokey Arthur ""Art"" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1955 with a film experiment called ""Gumbasia"", which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the ""Howdy Doody Show"", and later got their own"
"of balls toward the goal. Gromit ducks to avoid the barrage, but when Wallace stops to load in more balls, he dons a vest and gloves that inflate to completely block the goal. Wallace suggests that they switch to tennis; after the credits, he serves a ball that bounces off Gromit's vest, then calls out, ""15-love!"" Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a series of ten Wallace and Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's skeptical reaction to it. The"
"""Vorkapich"" because of his mastery of the dynamic visual montage sequence wherein time and space are compressed using a variety of cinematic techniques, such as kinetic montage, camera tricks, optical printer effects, dolly shots, & stylized graphics. Sometimes moviemakers will simply refer to the technique as ""a Vorkapićh"". Vorkapićh's protege Art Clokey learned kinescope animation techniques under him at USC Film School and went on to use them to create the ""Gumby"" animated series. Two of his many master drawings, his gift during a visit to Yugoslavia, are kept in the Syrmia Museum in Sremska Mitrovica. Recent reports say that"
"clay animations, produced by Premavision Studios. Art Clokey Arthur ""Art"" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1955 with a film experiment called ""Gumbasia"", which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the ""Howdy Doody"
"English throughout the United Kingdom on The Children's Channel, Channel 4 in 1996 and CITV in 1985. The series finished in 1986. Most of the episodes were released on various VHS videos in the late 80s and early 90s, but the program has never been officially released on DVD. Rocky Hollow Rocky Hollow was a 1983 stop motion animation children's television series made in Wales. The show was narrated by Peter Sallis, who later became the voice of Wallace in ""Wallace and Gromit"". This was the first children's television show to be produced by Bumper Films for S4C. The firm"
"works of Aardman have received numerous awards and nominations, the major awards won include the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and BAFTA Award for Best British Film for """". Aardman Animations Aardman Animations, Ltd. (also known as Aardman Studios or simply Aardman) is a British animation studio based in Bristol. Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with ""Owzat"" (1997), it entered the computer animation market with ""Flushed Away"" (2006). Aardman films have made $1"
"Animations who produce Wallace & Gromit, Tim Smit (Archaeology and Anthropology), co-founder of the Eden Project and David Walton (Economics and Mathematics, 1984), member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. Prominent journalists and media specialists include: George Entwistle, former Director-General of the BBC, Sir Harold Evans (Politics and Economics), editor of ""The Sunday Times"" from 1967 to 1981 and ""The Times"" from 1981 to 1982, Nigel Farndale (Philosophy), ""Sunday Telegraph"" journalist, George Alagiah (Politics), presenter of the ""BBC News at Six"", Matthew Amroliwala (Law and Politics, 1984), BBC News channel presenter, Biddy Baxter (1955), former producer of ""Blue"
"served as animation directors for the hybrid animated/live-action musical sequences in the MGM feature films ""Anchors Aweigh"" (1945, notable for its dance sequence featuring Gene Kelly and Jerry), ""Dangerous When Wet"" (1953), and ""Invitation to the Dance"" (1956). They also wrote and directed a handful of non-series, one-shot cartoons for MGM: ""Gallopin' Gals"" (1940), ""Officer Pooch"" (1941), ""War Dogs"" (1943), and ""Good Will to Men"", a 1955 remake of the 1939 MGM cartoon ""Peace on Earth"". With Quimby's retirement in 1955, Hanna and Barbera became the producers in charge of the MGM animation studio's output, supervising the last seven shorts"
"Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Movie Novelization"" by Penny Worms (), was also produced. It was the last DreamWorks Animation movie to be released on VHS. It was re released on DVD on 13 May 2014, as part of a triple film set, along with DreamWorks Animation's ""Chicken Run"" and ""Flushed Away"". ""Wallace & Gromit"" opened in 3,645 cinemas and had an opening weekend gross of $16 million, putting it at number one for that weekend. During its second weekend it came in at number two, just $200,000 behind ""The Fog"". It remained number one worldwide for three"
"Andy Symanowski Andy Symanowski is a stop-motion animator for Aardman Animations. He was a key animator for the feature films ""Chicken Run"", """" and ""The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"". He was also an animator for several TV shows such as ""Rex the Runt, ""Creature Comforts, ""Angry Kid"" and ""Shaun The Sheep"". He served as a supervising animator on the ""Wallace & Gromit"" mini series, ""Cracking Contraptions"". He was also an assistant animator for the ""Pib and Pog"" shorts, the ""Angry Kid"" special and ""Flushed Away"". In April 2005, he also helped produce a film with children of Southville"
"Primary. Andy Symanowski Andy Symanowski is a stop-motion animator for Aardman Animations. He was a key animator for the feature films ""Chicken Run"", """" and ""The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"". He was also an animator for several TV shows such as ""Rex the Runt, ""Creature Comforts, ""Angry Kid"" and ""Shaun The Sheep"". He served as a supervising animator on the ""Wallace & Gromit"" mini series, ""Cracking Contraptions"". He was also an assistant animator for the ""Pib and Pog"" shorts, the ""Angry Kid"" special and ""Flushed Away"". In April 2005, he also helped produce a film with children of"