Wallace & Gromit - Cracking Contraptions

By alain on Sunday 12 August, 2007

Have fun with Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. In the end the crew of Aardman gives a look behind the scenes.

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Category: Aardman, Entertainment

Animated Commercials - Part III

By alain on Saturday 11 August, 2007

This advertisement is created by Aardman to promote the Countryside Code in the United Kingdom. The animals of Creature Comforts give some advise on how to behave on the countryside, the coast and the British ‘Moorlands’.

‘Endless Cookie’ is a very nice animation for Zune, the MP3-player of Microsoft. If you know that you can share a song endlessly with Zune and this way the network keeps growing, it all becomes a bit more clear. This commercial is made by Passion Pictures and the song is Magic Trick by M. Ward.

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Category: Aardman, Advertisement

Creature Comforts US cancelled

By alain on Friday 29 June, 2007

In the USA there is no place anymore for the Aardman series Creature Comforts. After only three episodes the show is cancelled. The new series was produced for the American audience, however the ratings weren’t good enough. And like it is so often: ratings over quality. Because of this sad decision there are still 4 non-aired episodes laying around. The creators of Creature Comforts US ask their viewers to pressure CBS to still air the remaining episodes. Below you can have a look, see what you think of it.

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Category: Aardman

Animated commercials

By alain on Friday 22 June, 2007

This beautiful commercial is made by Stardust Animation Studios to promote Finland’s high class coffee brand Paulig Presidentti.

Aardman Animations created for the Wildscreen Film Festival 2006 a lovely bug animation.

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Category: Aardman, Advertisement

Wallace and Gromit commercials

By alain on Wednesday 13 June, 2007

Wallace and Gromit, the best known clay creatures from Aardman, also like to make some extra money. In these three commercials you’ll see the inseparable duo drinking tea, eating crackers and trying out the new Kangoo car. Thanks to the no-boundaries policy of Ebay, I also have the pleasure of drinking my cup of tea from the Gromit tea mug and see his nose turn red.

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Purple and Brown collection

By alain on Thursday 7 June, 2007

Earlier we posted a clip of Purple and Brown, two funny clay creatures from the Aardman studios. Today a collection of 32 clips of these funny, laughing idiots.

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Category: Aardman, Television

Animation on Joost - invites available

By alain on Thursday 31 May, 2007

Joost is the new way of watching online television. You can download a small program for this, with which you can watch many movies and series in perfect quality. It is a completely legal way of p2p television. To pay for the costs of the distribution rights there will be some advertisements between the programs. Joost is still in a beta phase, so you can only use it once you’ve received an invite.

The good new is that we’ve still got loads of incites, so if you are interested, you can leave a message and we’ll invite you.

Why this article on an animationblog? Next to all the movie, series and sport channels there are also some animation channels available. At this point there are 5 of them available worldwide:

• Aardman Animation: Aardman classics, like:
  • Creature Comforts
  • Rex The Runt
  • Morph Smart
  • A town called panic
• GONG: Various Anime-series, for example:
  • Ikki Tousen - Battle Angels
  • Gun Frontier
• Saturday Morning TV:Classic Cartoon, like:
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Mr. Magoo Show
  • Harveytoons
• Wildlight Channel: Short Animations
• Channel Frederator: shorts and animation by amateurs

In the US there are some extra channels available:

• Adult Swim channel
• G.I. Joe channel
• Transformers channel

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Category: Aardman, Television

Purple and Brown

By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007

What better way to start than with Purple and Brown: a short animated series from the Aardman stables. The show is created by Rich Webber in 2006. Tonight we watch episode: Bubblegum: