A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Documentary 

Reported for being against the current narrative. Enjoy being cancelled. (I agree and this is a joke)

Definitely! Well said! I'm an American too but I grew up watching a ton of British cartoons,movies,reading British books,etc. due to my parents' heritage and I loved shows like Wallace & Gromit--everything tended to be so well written and entertaining. Exciting that a new movie's coming!

I agree 100 percent. The British culture and humour is very unique and no one else has a sense of humour like it. While it would have done great thing for the company's global recognition to sign on with Dreamworks, its best to keep Aardman as its own company, so we can say that we have a staple animation company of pop culture to call our own

Me too.

You said it and I'm American too, I'm glad that Aardman has partway from DreamWorks because they wanted to tell their British stories without an American animation studio forcing them to follow their Shrek formula Style.

Still feels weird without the original voice actor may he rest in peace

Let's hope it's clay and not computer graphics. I like the clay models, so much skill and patients go into them.

YEAAAAAAAAH

@@flowerpetals1396 I think their only CG film was Flushed Away, and that's because they could work with Claymation water when water is present in almost every scene.

@@flowerpetals1396 Nvm, there was another CG film. But regardless, Aardman doesn't appear to be going down the CG route.

Yes it's a great skill for animators. Manny the Mammoth is close in the Ice Age movies, but I think Gromit is ahead of even him. :)

same, I used either a digital camera or a cell phone to take the photos and I used my toys or created my own dolls using all kinds of materials such as plasticine or copper wire

You're not alone. That was how I got into animating. I found brick films (AKA lego animations) boring to make because I couldn't shape the characters into my own liking. Claymation was a cool style to work with until it was expensive to constantly replace clay that got mixed up by a younger sibling because he thought modelling clay functioned the same way as Play Doh. 😑 I moved to rig based/flash animation when I entered high school, but still like to do stop motion occasionally.

growing up i would watch walace and gromit with my grandma

Same

No kidding when I was little I used to make Wallace And Gromit and Rocky and Ginger out of clay during my childhood back in the 2000s.

Pat and Mat

WALLACE AND GROMIT

I love Aardman too man

Rex the runt

List of wallace's and gromit's new jobs for the 22 new movies 1) wallace's plumbing shope . Freddy krueger 2) camp wallace's free super donut free shope with glaze only . Jason voorhees 3) wallace and gromit's puzzle shop for 399.99$$ . Pinhead 4) wallace's and the free children's game palooza store . Jigsaw 5) wallace and gromit's comic book shop buy it everything grand opening . Thanos 6) wallace's store with pop up books for kids and teens . Babadook 7) wallace and gromit's comic book shop buy it everything you are the best guy grand reopening . John wick 8) mcwallace's free fast food all you can eat burgers fries sodas mcwalnuggets and ice cream sundaes . Pennywise 9) wallace and gromit's halloween party costume shoppe . Michael myers 10) wallace's chili restaurant and gas station + a free market/wifi bathroom only . Leatherface 11) wallace and gromit's super free cracking in a jiggyity jig toy store grand opening . Annabelle 12) wallace's free fish chips peas and gravy shoppe . The megalodon shark 13) wallace and gromit's super free cracking in a jiggyity jig toy store grand reopening . Chucky 14) wallace and gromit's comic book shop buy it everything and you are the best guy in the world and be happy grand rereopening . Spider man 15) wallace's free crypto coin palace . Xenomorph 16) wallace and gromit's video game shoppe . Sonic.exe 17) wallace's free pizza partyierea . Freddy bonnie chica foxy and golden freddy 18) wallace and gromit's cartoon studio palace . Glitched corrupted finn shaggy bugs fred flintston joe jetson mordecai and spongebob List of returning characthers 1) mr paneer 2) miss plitt 3) major crum 4) mrs gabberley 5) constable dibbins 6) mr nutter 7) duncan 8) monty muzzle 9) mrs mouch 10) reggie or regge 11) victor 12) lady tuddington New characthers Mario paneer the father of mr panner aka mr jason panner Pamela plitt the mother of miss plitt General crummer major crum's major general in world war 1 Lisa gabberley the son of miss gabberley Chief gillbert dibbins the chief of constable dibbins Luigi gerhinatto the italian pizza chef and he is friends with duncan and constable dibbins Scott plumberblowwery he was the brother of duncan plumberblowwery Charlie muzzle the son of monty muzzle but is in jail with monty muzzle The all new Wallace and gromit movie coming in 2023-2024

Yeah, you never know if the penguin is strange m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n0jFoMz4a7I.html

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Don't forget fireman sam or postman pat

Flushed Away was CGI

I saw the "new" bob the builder just yesterday! Before that my young son had seen older ones on dvd so even he was confused they looked different

Bob The Builder is not art. There's no reason not to turn it into CGI.

I believe the most recent Chicken Coop Escape (can't remember the name but the original was super funny) is CGI and not claymation. It's coming soon on Netflix.

Happy Anniversary Aardman!🧀🚀🐓

Wow... 50?! Since 1972?!

It's "here", not "hear".

@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon oh I don’t think he can here you, mate

@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon Thanks for pointing that out. I blame the terrible prediction text on my phone for that. 😅

I'm American and really appreciate that too. Definitely taught me a lot about British culture as a kid and sparked a lifetime affinity for it.

Still though it would be interesting to see their take on a story set in the America. Not that there is anything wrong with most of their work being set in Britain (I grew up watching a lot of their stuff like Wallace and Gromit) it’s just interesting seeing non American companies takes on America. (Chicken Run as far as I know is their only work to feature anything American which is Rocky the Rooster in Chicken Run)

Lmr

@@LeDankmr mm

If Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Peter Sallis, & Nick Park Were All From Somewhere Like Michigan Or New York, I Don’t Think Anyone Would’ve Taken As Much Notice.

Like a phoenix, they rose from the ashes.

@@9386AliG but literally

Same, I watched it so many times until it was removed from netflix

But "change" in this sense meant throwing away the thing that made them special. They can emulate it very well but emulation doesn't change it from not being the real thing.

@@MrJoeyWheeler In this case, the change made it possible for them to rebuild capital, so they could continue making stop-motion animation. If they had not bitten the CGI bullet, however briefly, the fire may have very well put them out of business altogether. I believe that Aardman is committed to keeping the art of stop motion animation alive. They just need enough revenue in the coffers to do so. It is a very labor intensive process, by skilled artisans, and that makes it expensive.

I lived in Bristol at the time and I remember an interview with Wallace and Gromit in the local newspaper - both scorched, sitting on a scorched sofa ❤️, about the fire at their warehouse. I regret to this day that I didn't keep it. It was brilliant!

@@brera2434 I worked nearby and remember coming back to my car and it was covered in aardman ash. 😟 Luckily a lot of the Were-rabbit sets and characters were on display at an exhibition at the time and therefore survived.

​@@2LaneTraveler I had to check if Flushed Away made any money, and the consensus seems to be 'not really,' so if it did net them any capital, it wasn't much.

I was 20 when I saw The Wrong Trousers. I still love them at 49.

VERY woke sentiments! And VERY true!

Same

I honestly don't understand how people hate Stop Motion, and prefer computer animation. They actually say that the stop motion has no soul and the CGI does. Which I've seen very souless 3d animation. Goat Story, anyone?

True 100%, and I especially love Aardman and Laika. These both are the best stop-motion animation studios in the market today.

Well part of the reason it looks so good is because it's mostly practical with physical environments, characters, effects, and lighting. You can see an excellent comparison when you look at how Flushed Away turned out. It's the same style and Studio, but working with water for the vast majority of the film simply wasn't feasible so they created the film entirely in CGI.

I am not saying 3D is bad or anything. I am just saying people shouldn't knock Stop Motion for being uncanny. Until I see a CGI Mouth that doesn't make me feel uncomfortable. I'll say CGI is more creepy than Stop Motion. At least with Stop Motion the movement of the mouth fits the rest of the animation.

@ what? I'm confused. Do those people who HATE stop motion exist?

Great comment 👍

Oh I dunno, some magic tricks I've learned the secret to, and they're still bloody amazing feats to me. But I get what you mean because claymation still boggles my mind as to how it's done, even if the process is simple in concept.

I agree! And I would go even further: It's even more magical, knowing how it's done! If a hand magician shows you how they palm a coin, or drop a card in their pocket, it's somehow less amazing. Impressive the practice it takes, but not as "magical." When you watch any form of animation, it looks so seamless and life-like. It's very easy to take for granted, like any actor on stage or screen. But when you consider how drawn animation is created one drawing at a time, it's amazing. When you consider stop-motion, there is no room for error! You can't just re-draw a frame; there is literally an entire set and multiple characters, each doing their own thing, and every single frame has to be captured in-camera! I'm into puppetry, and bringing inanimate bits of fabric and plastic to life is what I do. But it's in real time; the voice and the action happens because I tell my body to do it, through this puppet character. It moves at the speed of my own thoughts, just like when I'm acting as a human person. The laws of physics affect me and my puppet in real time, and all of my acting instincts are translated, even the tiny subconscious ones. But animation is acting taken to an EXTREME slow motion, and each and every single twitch, eyebrow lift, finger movement, is pre-planned and executed one 24th of a second at a time. It is simply amazing. Knowing how it is done makes it even MORE magical, IMHO.

@Chase Studios We'll check back with you in about five years...😉

Brilliantly stated!!!!!

I'm making a pretty funny Wallace and Gromit YTP coming out soon

Yeah me too but I think it's kinda not be the same since we lost peter Sallis he voice wallace and he passed away 2017 😔

@@joannedowell3194 They are making another Wallace and Gromit film. They announced it. It will be out in 2024. This is the plot: When Wallace’s “Smart Gnome” develops a mind of its own, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master…or Wallace may never be able to invent again!

@@skinner219 Oh Right I Didn’t Know,It Will Be Weird Hearing Ben Whitehead Instead Of Wallace But I Guess I’ll Just See How It Goes

@@skinner219 cool

Yeah Aardman makes me proud to be British 😊

But I Watched A Bit Of This On BBC Four

I watched this on Netflix too. But when I watched it on Netflix the music playing in the background that we hear at the beginning of this sounded different then the music that we hear at the beginning of this video that was published on RU-vid. The music that I hear at the beginning of this video dose not sound the same as it did when I watched it on Netflix! It`s totally different music! It`s not the same music that I heard when I watched it on Netflix. Speaking of witch when I watched The Wrong trousers on a VHS Gromit`s birthday card was singing Happy Birthday to him. But when I watched The Wrong Trousers on a DVD the birthday card that Gromit got song for he`s a jolly good fellow instead of Happy Birthday. Also when I watched The Wrong Trousers on a VHS I hear music playing as I see Gromit laying on a couch with a blanket on top of him. But when I watched The Wrong Trousers on DVD when I got to the scene with Gromit laying on the couch the music I heard didn`t sound the same as it did when I watched it on a VHS! Oh and it would appear that the music has chanced in here in this video too! Unbelievable!

Oh and the beginning isn't the only scene where the music dose not sound the same as it did when I watched this on Netflix! I don`t know how many scene has music that dose not sound the same as it did when I watched this on Netflix.

Oh and not only dose the music sound different is some scenes of this video but I think there are also scenes in the video that didn`t show when I watched this on Netflix! I think I also see some people in this video that weren't shown at all in the video I watched on Netflix! Oh and also I think the narrator is saying sentences in this video that I didn`t hear her say in the the video of this story when I watched this story on Netflix! Looks like this video is different from the one we saw on Netflix! I even filmed the one on Netflix with my iPhone! I look three videos of it on my iPhone back in 2018 and I still have them on my iPhone today! Oh and I can hear the music that sounds different then the music in the videos I have on my iPhone.

I watched it on Netflix too

That's a lovely comparison. Even the artstyle of Pixar's most recent film Luca was in part a tribute to Aardman.

And Laika for non-clay stop motion.

You got that right, I was surprise Pixar were so inspired by Aardman too because last year even today I often compare both Chicken Run and Toy Story 3 together.

I wonder what they’re going to do next

Well, the same thing is basically said in here!

I was in my mid 20s when Wallace and Grommet first came out, I think the older you get the more you will appreciate these Productions. In my late 20s I was also excited to expose my own children to Wallace and Grommet. My kids are now in there 20s and have a greater appreciation for this art.

As a kid? How old are you? I swear this is just a few years old

I never knew you were a fan of aardman

@@joevictor53 This documentary is from 2015.

Yeah there’s not a lot of British animation that really stacks up but Aardman are the one big exception

@@unstoppableExodia Danger Mouse?

@@diabolicalartificer danger mouse was decent

Shaun the sheep ❤🐑

@@diabolicalartificer that was the first one that came to my mind too. Still one of the best.

What is going to be the name of yhe song?, its precious and gentle

Your mention of the wholesomeness raised for me the question of what kind of non-wholesome claymation could be devised, and, well, that became one of those thoughts that can't be un-thought. I'll just leave that there.

This anglophile in me is what is what l love so much about these cartoons! ☕🧀👍never too British!

Interesting to know was made in the States. These days everything here seems to be made in China..... 🤔😔

Likewise Harry Potter; it wouldn’t be the same if he was Harvey Pepchinski from Queens

And a good Stilton...

@@edwardkeating5285 Yes, I was going to add 'don't forget the cheese!'