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‘Wallace & Gromit’ Creator Nick Park Credits Disney for Sparking Interest in Animation, Teases ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ and Feathers’ Long-Awaited Return
'Wallace & Gromit' creator Nick Park talks challenges of bringing stop-motioncharacters to life and Feathers' return in 'Vengeance Most Fowl.'
Four decades later, thanks in large part to Park’s Academy Award-winning success at Aardman Animation — and a beloved duo named Wallace and Gromit — stop-motion is a format thriving on multiple continents, with enough specialists to support several productions at a time. “The way he said ‘cheese’ and ‘allotment doors’ [lent itself to] these very basic, Bob Godfrey-style extreme mouths,” like he had seen in the “Charley Says” public service shorts playing on British TV, which he combined with amusingly proportioned characters, à la Gary Larson’s “The Far Side” cartoons. Released a few years earlier, Henry Selick’s “A Nightmare Before Christmas” featured a relatively elaborate style, shot on “singles” (the models are photographed 24 times a second, whereas Aardman worked on “doubles,” exposing two frames per pose, resulting in a slightly jerkier look).
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