A 5 year old inventor in the United Kingdomhas been named the youngest inventor in UK history – and credits Wallace and Gromit as being inspiration. “Inspired by his heroes Wallace and Gromit, Sam has become Britain’s youngster inventor by patenting an idea for a new type of broom.” – Mirror.co.uk: Sam Houghton, 5, is […]
Aardman managed to walk away from the British Animation Awards with 4 awards this year – two of which went to Shaun the Sheep on CBBC, which won both the best children’s series and the children’s choice award. BBC News: Aardman scoops animation awards Guardian.co.uk: Aardman shines at animation awards The new upcoming Wallace and […]
Calling all Wallace and Gromit fans! Nick Park is selling the van that inspired the Anti-Pesto van in Wallace and Gromit : The Curse of the Wererabbit on Ebay. Bidding opened today with the starting bid at £999.99, closing on the 27th October. All proceeds from the sale will go to Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Foundation. For […]
Fresh from the dizzy heights of Hollywood fame, Wallace and Gromit are set to star in a brand new 30 minute short for BBC One in late 2008! With a brand new windmill installation at 62 West Wallaby Street, the film will see our heroes embarking on yet another business…baking! According to Nick Park, the […]
Back in July you might recall that a Wallace and Gromit flower display at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show at Tatton Park in Cheshire won a gold metal! I never reported about this, but an article about it is here. The news now is that the display has been moved to a local […]
Lots of exciting news tidbits has filtered through over the past couple of months starting with…. BBC News reported plans a couple of days ago for a Wallace and Gromit Statue to be erected in Nick Park’s home city, Preston. The bronze tribute is to be designed by Nick Park who says he is “delighted […]
It’s been a busy year for me, and the lack of updates for the past few months has been unfortunate. My excuse is this overhaul! The migration to this new website format is now complete. We now have an RSS feed, comments enabled for posts for 2 months, and the ability to give email AND […]
Just a quick note to say I’m still alive and planning on doing some site updates in the very near future. As always, thoughts and suggestions for the site are always welcome, just click on Contact for my email address and drop me a line! Cheers everyone.
The new Shaun the Sheep kids series from CBBC launched this month with a great deal of fanfare. Digital Outlook was hired to develop the website, which Daniel Brett dropped me a link to as soon as he knew about it (before I did!): ShaunTheSheep.com – Official site with show clips, information about it worldwide, […]
First off, Aardman and Dreamworks have made the formal announcement about their parting ways. It’s unfortunate that Aardman will no longer have the support of such a large studio, but I hope this means they will regain all their creative license and will be able to create more fantastic films like Were-Rabbit and fewer “hollywoodized” […]