I was very excited to wake up this morning and the first clips from the upcoming Wallace and Gromit feature. You can view the 3 minute “Making of Wallace and Gromit” on IFilms.com for free by going to their site: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2661402?htv=12. After some poking around the sites that reported this news, I discovered that comingsoon.net […]
According to this article, Aardman has renewed the licensing deal with Wensleydale Creameries, the company that sells the official Wallace and Gromit cheese (which is delicious). “I can credit much of the creamery’s present success from the initial deal with Aardman and the endearing popularity of this dynamic duo. Aardman were keen on granting rights […]
To the left is a photo of the rumored movie poster for the new Wallace and Gromit film. How exciting! Sources tend to lean toward the title being “The Curse Of The Were Rabbit.” (Source of this photo aintitcool.com, thanks to Georg Bauer for this link) Sky News reports the first glimpse of Wallace and […]
BBC has announced plans for a 40 part series by Aardman staring the beloved Shaun the sheep, from A Close Shave. It will air on CBBC, the Children’s BBC network. The 40-part series, commissioned from Aardman Animations, begins production at the end of the year and will be transmitted on CBBC in 2006. -BBC.com Click […]
According to this article from independent.co.uk: Scientists are hoping to learn more about how children respond to facial expressions by monitoring their reactions to Wallace and Gromit. … “Gromit [the dog] is non-speaking yet young children engage with him strongly,” said Professor Graham Collingridge, of the university’s neuroscience department. “So the facial expressions he uses […]
An article this morning by icLiverpool says: CHESHIRE character gift and gadget expert Wesco has been awarded the merchandising rights for products generated by the new Wallace & Gromit movie. … Wesco will be launching a range of clocks, watches, radios and money banks – firmly established as favourites with children of all ages, as […]
According to this article at musicfromthemovies.com, Julian Nott is the confirmed composer for the Wallace and Gromit movie. He was also the composer for all the rest of the Wallace and Gromit shorts, Chicken Run, and Not Without My Handbag, among other things.
Today I spent a great deal of time changing this site from simple HTML to PHP, changing the format of these News articles, moving some of the sections, validating the code and making the site less centered everywhere. These changes were needed to help me more easily update the site, and to make it more […]
The Aardman team is helping with an open countryside project that aims to inform people about their rights and responsibilites toward open countryside in the UK. The new version of the code, first introduced in the Fifties, aims to prepare everyone for the introduction of the public’s new right of access to the countryside. –Cumberland […]
Aardman sent out emails today advertising some job positions that have opened on the set of the Wallace and Gromit movie! Set Dresser Junior Carpenter/stagehand Runners Of course the studio is in Bristol, UK, and you need to be able to work in the UK to apply for any of these positions. See http://www.aardman.com/culture/jobs.html for […]