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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace & Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993).
Wallace keeps calling Gromit, who is still in the basement, to stop Shaun, but Gromit, disgusted and not wanting to get involved, ignores Wallace while Shaun happily munches away on the cheese (alluding to the final scene in A Close Shave). This short contains numerous references to NASA, especially the Apollo 13 mission.
Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace & Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day per animator. [79]
The Wrong Trousers was followed by A Close Shave (1995), The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008). McGraw returns in the video game Project Zoo (2003) and the film Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), [4] as well as a background cameo in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023). [5]
A spin-off in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, the series focuses on the adventures of Shaun, the eponymous sheep previously starring in A Close Shave, as the leader of his flock on an English farm. The series premiered on 5 March 2007 on CBBC in the UK, also airing on BBC Two.
It is the fifth Wallace & Gromit film, and the first short film since A Close Shave (1995). [2] A Matter of Loaf and Death is a murder mystery, including a serial killer murdering bakers. Wallace and Gromit operate a bakery business, during which Gromit tries to solve the case before Wallace himself ends up as the killer's latest and final ...
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a 2024 British stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations and the BBC in association with Netflix, and directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham.
[9] [10] It was followed by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death, and Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024. It was a Best Animated Short Film nominee for the 63rd Academy Awards.