Aardman started as a very small low budget company and their dream was to ultimatlely create an animated motion picture using plasticine. The partnership created a small short for the BBC and this sparked a lot of interest, forming ideas for the inspiration of the famous character, Morf. In the early days Aardman was commissioned to produce lots of short to go at the beginning of films or for adverts etc. Because using plasticine was such a pain-stakingly arduous and time consuming task, creating short films was perfect.
However interest grew is Aardman's work and the company produced small animated television drama's, such as Wallice and Gromit. These were a great success and opened a lot of doors for the company.
In 1997 the company Aadman and Dreamworks announced that they were teaming up to create a film. This film was Chicken Run. Another huge success. It was now clear that the company had gained enough technology, contacts and employees to continue to make full feature length films such as Flushed Away and Wallice and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabit.
As shown above its clear what level of intricasy must go into creating films that are feature length using this type of animation. Each character has to be individually sculpted and moved milimetre my milimetre to achieve the look of movement. Think about different facial expressions, all of that has to be taken into consideration. In some of the characters faces, the production company will get a real actor and place censors on the body and get him/her to act out the recquired movement. This allows the directors to have a good idea about how to position the plasticine characters.
Its a really interesting idea, and I think I would look into adding some sort of animation like this into my short film, just to illistrate the juvenille message im trying to put accross. However the amount of time it would take up is concerning me slightly. Its something im going to have to look into when developing my idea further.
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