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Aardman Spins Toddler Babble Into Comedy Gold With ‘The Very Small Creatures’: ‘They Are Little Creatures, but Big Characters’
'There's a lot of comedy in toddlers,' says Lucy Izzard, creator of 'The Very Small Creatures,' a series for preschool kids using real toddler voices.
For more than 40 years, Aardman Animations has been producing classics like “Wallace & Gromit,” “Chicken Run” and “Shaun the Sheep.” Now, following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Nick Park, new recruits have come on board at the company’s headquarters on Spike Island in the port city of Bristol, in the West of England, replenishing its creative treasure chest. Early influences included the surreal humor of creative geniuses such as Edward Lear, Ronald Searle and Spike Milligan, as well as British comedian and artist Vic Reeves. With this package of material, they were able to pitch Sky, which had already screened the latest iteration of “Morph,” titled “The Epic Adventures of Morph.” The pay TV operator greenlit it in December 2020, and they went into production in February 2021, with the first season comprising 20 episodes of three minutes each.
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