The Oscar success of Wallace and Gromit and Corpse Bride’s Animation Award yesterday have shared the honours nicely between these triumphs of animation. Watching Wallace and Gromit with my children last week, I marvelled at the sheer depth and detail. Freeze any frame of animation and you’ll see a visual joke. Listen to any line of the script and you’ll find the audio equipment. Even if I were ever to work in this kind of animation it would be on the script. I am in awe of the artistic talent of these people.
I am very proud of Wallace and Gromit as a very British work. The truth is, the creators have been given the scope by their connection with Dreamworks. I have written before of the number of animation jobs that will be coming up with Dreamworks, and if I had the talent to undertake an animation degree and go for animation jobs, that’s what I would be doing. I can think of few things in the film world that are as exciting as animation right now.
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