Who was the creator of Wallace and Gromit?
"Wallace and Gromit Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. The series consists of four short films and a feature-length film. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, along with his companion Gromit, a silent yet loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic dog. Wallace was originally voiced by veteran actor Peter Sallis, and later by Ben Whitehead. Gromit remains silent, communicating only through means of facial expressions and body language. Because of their widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture"
"Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention is a science-themed miniseries featuring the animated claymation characters Wallace and Gromit, made by Aardman and aired on BBC One. The BBC said in a press statement that in the series, ""Wallace will take a light hearted and humorous look at the real-life inventors, contraptions, gadgets and inventions, with the silent help of Gromit. The series aims to inspire a whole new generation of innovative minds by showing them real, but mind-boggling, machines and inventions from around the world that have influenced his illustrious inventing career."" Peter Sallis"
"inventions along with instructions. Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention is a science-themed miniseries featuring the animated claymation characters Wallace and Gromit, made by Aardman and aired on BBC One. The BBC said in a press statement that in the series, ""Wallace will take a light hearted and humorous look at the real-life inventors, contraptions, gadgets and inventions, with the silent help of Gromit. The series aims to inspire a whole new generation of innovative minds by showing them real, but mind-boggling, machines and inventions from around the world that have influenced his illustrious"
"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"
"Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of ""Wallace and Gromit"" and ""Shaun the Sheep"". Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with ""Creature Comforts"" (1989), ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993), ""A Close Shave"" (1995) and """" (2005). He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"", which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film"
"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"
"""Wallace and Gromit"" composer Julian Nott, played by a Czech orchestra. Since then, the series has covered over 200 'heroes', and has seen several special episodes. The first special saw Hart-Davis visit Egypt to investigate ancient heroes, while another took him to Italy for a Renaissance special. Another notable show was the finale of the last series (to date), which was performed in front of a live audience at the Royal Institution, much in the style of the Institution's Christmas Lectures. The show continued until 2000. Since then, Hart-Davis has moved on to other shows, and the bbc.co.uk Local Heroes"
"Julian Nott Julian Nott (born Julian Franklin Keith Nott, 23 August 1960) is a British film composer, mostly of animated films. He is best known for his work on the ""Wallace and Gromit"" films and ""Peppa Pig"" animations. Nott was born in Marylebone, London, and was educated at Eton College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he studied Music and Philosophy, Politics and Economics and was the college organ scholar. After a few years working for Arthur Andersen Management Consultants in the City (now Accenture) and writing freelance for The Economist Group, he enrolled at the British National Film and"
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (video game) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a video game developed by Frontier Developments and published by Konami. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles, and for the mobile phone. A Nintendo GameCube version was in development, but was later canceled for unknown reasons. It was released in North America and Europe in September, October and December 2005 respectively, and in Japan in March 16, 2006 for the PlayStation 2. It is based on by Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation. The main characters are Wallace"
"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"
"and Metacritic gave the PC version 74% and 72/100 and the Xbox 360 version 74% and 72/100. 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"
"publications including ""Punch"" and ""The Spectator"". He also draws for ""Times Higher Education"" (THE), ""Estates Gazette"", ""The Wisden Cricketer"", the ""Wisden Almanack"" and ""The Big Issue"". The Cartoon Art Trust voted him Pocket Cartoonist of the Year 1997 and Gag Cartoonist of the Year 1998 and 2005. He won the Sports Journalists' Association’s award for Sports Cartoonist of the Year in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He has produced many cartoon anthologies and books, including three Wallace & Gromit adventures (with Tristan Davies. Pub. Hodder & Stoughton). Nick Newman Nick Newman (born 17 July 1958) is a satirical British cartoonist and"
"Bob Baker (scriptwriter) Robert John ""Bob"" Baker (born 26 July 1939) is a British television and film writer. He is best known as the co-author (with Nick Park) of the Wallace and Gromit films ""The Wrong Trousers"", ""A Close Shave"" and """" and ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"" (in which a character (Baker Bob) is named after him). Baker and Dave Martin began writing for Harlech Television (HTV), the local ITV franchise. One of their earliest works was Thick As Thieves starring Leonard Rossiter. Baker wrote for ""Doctor Who"" between 1971 and 1979. For all but the last of"
"films in the ""Wallace and Gromit"" film series have won Academy Awards: ""The Wrong Trousers"", ""A Close Shave"" and ""."". The aim of Gromit Unleashed was to fundraise for Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal. Founded in 1995, the charity raises funds for paediatric medical equipment at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and St. Michael's Hospital. In collaboration with Aardman, it uses the characters Wallace and Gromit as mascots for the charity. Funds were raised through the sale of trail maps, merchandise, and ""Detect-o-Gromit"", a smartphone app, aimed at helping users find the Gromit sculptures, costing 69p per download. On"
"Hotel near Chipping on 16 September 2016. Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of ""Wallace and Gromit"" and ""Shaun the Sheep"". Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with ""Creature Comforts"" (1989), ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993), ""A Close Shave"" (1995) and """" (2005). He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"", which was also the most watched television programme in the"
"Peter Sallis Peter John Sallis, (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning ""Wallace and Gromit"" films and played Norman ""Cleggy"" Clegg in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" from its 1973 inception until its final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes. Although Sallis was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both Northerner. He also voiced Rat in ""The Wind in the Willows"", appeared in ""Danger Man"" in the episode ""Find and Destroy"""
"Gordon Volke, art by Sylvia Bennion, Jay Clarke, Jimmy Hansen, Viv Heath, Mychailo Kazybrid and Brian Williamson. It replaced ""George and Lynne"". A graphic novel compiling all 311 daily strips was released on 8 October 2013, and a second volume is set to follow in October 2014. The newspaper strip ended on 27 October 2013. The comic is available as a series of apps on iPod Touch and iPhone. In November 1997 the characters appeared in a play called ""Wallace And Gromit™ Alive on Stage in a Grand Night Out"". Wallace and Gromit appeared in the Christmas television idents for"
"an invasion of evil aliens that want to take over Mossy Bottom Farm. A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following ""A Grand Day Out"" (1989) and ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993). In ""A Close Shave,"" Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like ""The Wrong Trousers"", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business."
"Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels (also known as Wallace & Gromit at the Proms) is the name of Prom 20 of the 2012 season of The BBC Proms, which features orchestral renditions of Julian Nott's theme from Wallace & Gromit and classical music set to scenes from the Wallace & Gromit films. Wallace is performed by Ben Whitehead, the actor who performed Wallace in the episodic adventure game series, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. Due to its popularity, it became a full touring show in 2013, premiering at The Plenary in Melbourne, Australia on 9"
"However, the popular Wallace and Gromit animated shorts ""A Grand Day Out"", ""The Wrong Trousers"", and ""A Close Shave"" had the main character Wallace, a cheese connoisseur, mention Wensleydale as a particularly favourite cheese. Animator Nick Park chose it solely because it had a good name that would be interesting to animate rather than due to its origins in northern England where the shorts were set. He was also unaware of the financial difficulties that the company was experiencing. The company contacted Aardman Animations about a licence for a special brand of ""Wallace and Gromit Wensleydale"", which proved to be"
"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"
"A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following ""A Grand Day Out"" (1989) and ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993). In ""A Close Shave,"" Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like ""The Wrong Trousers"", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business. As they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace falls for shopkeeper"
"to promote a Harvey Nichols store that opened in Bristol (where Aardman is based) in 2008. The pictures show them, and Lady Tottington from ""The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"", wearing designer clothes and items. They were used to prevent a Wensleydale cheese factory from shutting down because of financial difficulties after a member of staff came up with the idea of using Wallace and Gromit as mascots, as Wensleydale is one of Wallace's favourite cheeses. On 28 March 2009, The Science Museum in London opened an exhibition called ""Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas."" The family-oriented show,"
"United Kingdom's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4. Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993) and ""A Close Shave"" (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, ""Chicken Run"" (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of ""Creature Comforts"" films for British television in 2003. His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, """", was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations'"
"a visiting professorship at Volda University College. Peter Lord Peter Lord, CBE (born 4 November 1953) is a British animator, film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit. He also directed ""The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!"" which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. Lord is the executive producer of every Aardman work, including ""Chicken Run"", ""Arthur Christmas"" and ""Flushed Away."" Lord was born in Bristol, England. In co-operation with David"
"Christopher Sadler Christopher Sadler (born 1970) is a British animator, director and writer. He is primarily known for his work on ""Wallace and Gromit"", ""Chicken Run"", ""Rex the Runt"", ""Cracking Contraptions"", ""Creature Comforts"" and ""Shaun the Sheep"". He completed his secondary education at Codsall High School, Staffordshire, leaving in 1989 having passed four A levels. He then joined a one-year art and design foundation course at Stafford College before moving to Bristol and embarking on a Graphic Design degree at University of the West of England. Although he originally focused on illustration, Sadler later turned his hand to stop motion"
"The Wrong Trousers The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following ""A Grand Day Out"" (1989)""."" In the film, a sinister penguin uses Wallace and Gromit's robotic ""Techno Trousers"" to steal a diamond. ""The Wrong Trousers"" premiered in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993. It was commercially successful and won the 1993 Academy Award for Best"
"Sean Vanaman Sean Vanaman (born June 16, 1984) is an IrishAmerican video game designer, writer, and podcaster. He was the co-project leader and lead writer of ""The Walking Dead"", and ""Puzzle Agent 2"". He also wrote the third episode of ""Tales of Monkey Island"", and was the designer of ""Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures"", and the writer of the third episode, ""Muzzled"". He was one of the regular hosts of the Idle Thumbs podcast and is one of the co-founders of Campo Santo, the company that produced ""Firewatch"". Vanaman was born and raised in Cork, Ireland. He and his family"
"in 1995. Though the characters were temporarily retired in 1996, Sallis returned to voice Wallace in several short films and in the Oscar-winning 2005 motion picture """", for which he won an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production. In 2008, Sallis voiced a new ""Wallace and Gromit"" adventure, ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"". After the ""Curse of the Were-Rabbit"", Sallis's eyesight began to fail as a result of macular degeneration and he used a talking portable typewriter with a specially illuminated scanner to continue working. His last role as Wallace was in 2010's ""Wallace"
"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"
"was shown on Australian ""ABC News Breakfast"" on Wednesday, 28 June, featuring an 8-minute interview with producers Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The exhibition revealed that in Nick Park's very early sketches, Gromit was originally a cat, but Park soon changed him into a dog, since it was generally agreed that a dog was clearly more suitable as a loyal pet/companion than a cat and also because a dog would be easier to make and animate in Plasticine. Embedded in the ABC News article is a video interview with Lord and Sproxton, which gives information not only on Wallace and"
"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"
"ownership of the film, while DreamWorks Animation retained worldwide distribution rights in perpetuity, excluding some United Kingdom television rights and ancillary markets. Soon after the end of the agreement, Aardman announced that they would proceed with another ""Wallace & Gromit"" project, later revealed to be a return to their earlier short films with ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"" with the BBC. During production of the short, Park remarked publicly on difficulties with working with DreamWorks during the production of ""Were-Rabbit"", such as the constant production notes and demands to alter the material to appeal more to American children. Wallace"