Thursday, May 20, 2010

Wallace and Gromit



Introducing Wallace and Gromit, the greatest animation yet in my opinion! Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters are made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation.



Wallace, an absent-minded inventor living in Wigan, Greater Manchester, is a cheese enthusiast (especially for Wensleydale). His companion, Gromit, is an anthropomorphic intelligent dog. Wallace is voiced by veteran actor Peter Sallis; Gromit remains silent, communicating only through facial expressions and body language.
Due to their popularity, the characters have been called positive international
icons of modern British culture and of the British people. BBC News has called them "some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK".Icons has stated that they have done "more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors".The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and the full length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit received Academy Awards. The first short film A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Creature Comforts, another animated creation of Nick Park, and the most recent short film A Matter of Loaf and Death was also nominated in 2010.
The two characters appear in the monthly
BeanoMAX comic. This eventually replaced their original comic published by Titan Magazines. They are also heavily featured in the unofficial (though supported by Aardman Animations) monthly free online magazine 'Aardmag'.

Here is the theme song for it:







Enjoy! That's all folks!!!
[By the way, I recommend you watch the movies. They are awesome!]

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