Aardman co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, the company’s star director Nick Park and Executive Creative Director Sarah Cox hit the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Sunday for a masterclass celebrating the studio’s 50th anniversary.
There were plenty of anecdotes but the 90-minute talk also looked to the present and future of the award-winning studio behind stop-motion box office break out Chicken Run; Oscar-winner Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the Shaun The Sheep series among many beloved films and shows.
Cox took the opportunity to announce the BBC-commissioned stop-motion and 2D animated series
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