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Behind the scenes on the latest Wallace & Gromit film
The Aardman team who worked on Vengeance Most Fowl have shared how they created the latest Wallace and Gromit animated adventure.
“We do use every toy in the toybox,” Merlin Crossingham, one of the film’s directors, revealed.
“We’ve got stop motion as one of the oldest crafts in the cinema fusing with some of the absolute latest cutting-edge technology.”
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The secrets were revealed in a new behind the scenes documentary:
The whole process to make the film from start to finish took around five years at Aardman’s studios in Aztec West.
“In a good week we might hit a minute of film,” said co-director and Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.
According to Park, this hard-work paid off because the film has a strong “story and gags and drama”.
For Matt Perry, the production designer, it is the charm of the protagonists which he believes has kept fans engaged.
He thinks Wallace and Gromit are “like old friends”: “People want to come back, see what they’re doing, and feel part of it.”
Perry credited Park’s “genre hopping” in the film as one of the the movie’s most exciting aspects. Some parts of the film reference Ealing comedies, others can be compared to Hammer Horrors and even Hitchcockian suspense.
Lorne Balfe, one of the show’s composers said: “It is quintessential English, but it is cinematic… It is embracing genres.”
Park added: “I have to pinch myself sometimes – to think that they’re still on the telly.”
Main photo: Aardman
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