Wallace & Gromit - The Complete Collection [DVD](CD over image may vary)

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crew. A wealth of information about the design of the show and how difficult it is to do claymation is presented. Each of with a delicious spread of short-shorts, "making of" featurettes, and insightful audio commentaries. and his smart, newspaper reading dog, Gromit. Wallace is always cooking up a new invention that inevitably gets them

He soon got his own series, because he's just so darn cute. This is just a small helping of that series. The choice of baking (which may have sparked from nothing more than a play on Bob Baker's name - it is his likeness, after all, featured on the clueless baker killed during the pre-credits sequence) calls for quite a bit of CG, as the animators had to go in afterwards to add the puffs of flour and clouds of steam that surround much of the action. In general W&G's world seems larger now, and camera moves have gotten considerably more complex, which paradoxically seems to work against Aardman's lo-fi charm.making-of documentary, but it does cover, in depth, the way the final episode was animated. I find it fascinating little gems of yesterday. Hand-drawn animation is still around here and there, but not as frequently for

CGI has a firm strangle hold on the majority of animated features we see today, so it's easy to forget those Out." In "The Wrong Trousers," Gromit smells something fishy after a penguin moves in and plots to make off with Wallace's Techno-Trousers. Then it's time for "A Close Shave" as Wallace & Gromit get wrapped up in a sheep-rustling scheme. Finally, trouble rises after A few trailers are included at the beginning of the film before you get the menu. One for 'Thomas the Engine,' score. Some of the sound effects are a little dodgy, but that's all part of the charm. The later films tad dimmer. It's also slightly more grainy. Still the fine detail is immediately noticeable in the first episode.

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