A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

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Overview

The creators of Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series share the inside story of their Oscar award-winning animation company.

Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and brought to life a string of unforgettable movies and television shows, including the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, Chicken Run.

With A Grand Success!, Lord, Sproxton, and Park tell the 45-year history of Aardman. From their first short films, made on a lark on their kitchen table, to advertisements and music videos, A Grand Success! recounts the adventures and challenges of developing their own unique style, growing their business, working with famous actors, and conquering Hollywood, all while animating at 24 painstaking moves per second.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683352099
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 06/08/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 350
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations. Lord has been nominated for three Academy Awards, including the award for Best Animated Feature for the 2012 film The Pirates!, which he directed. Nick Park is the writer, director, and animator who created Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for six Academy Awards and has won four. Lord, Sproxton, and Park live in England.

Table of Contents

Foreword Matt Groening ix

Introduction Nick Park xiii

Prologue: Let's put on a show… 1

1 Teenage Kicks 17

2 Meta-Morph-Osis 38

3 A New Decade 61

4 Nick Park 84

5 Moving on Up 100

6 Oscar Fever 120

7 Growing Pains 141

8 A Pitch in Time 163

9 Lost in New York 175

10 Chicken Run 181

11 A Fable Too Far 206

12 Rabbits and Rats 213

13 Such Sweet Sorrow 232

14 Up in Smoke 239

15 A Statement Building 244

16 Shaun the Sheep the Superstar 266

17 Bristol 289

18 Celebrities on Set 305

19 Where Do We Go from Here? 320

Acknowledgements 340

Index 341

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