Aardman Animations - Beyond Stop-Motion (Hardcover)

The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as Shaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-modelled family films, but it has more recently begun to experiment with modern digital filmmaking effects that either emulate 'Claymation' methods or form a hybrid animation style. This unique volume brings together leading film and animation scholars with children's media/animation professionals to explore the production practices behind Aardman's creativity, its history from its early shorts to contemporary hits, how its films fit within traditions of British animation, social realism and fantasy cinema, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its representations of 'British-ness' on screen and the implications of traditional animation methods in a digital era.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2020
Editors:	Annabelle Honess Roe
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-11455-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Animation Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Art techniques & materials > Art techniques & principles
LSN:	1-350-11455-3
Barcode:	9781350114555

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