Aardman add two more feature films to their collection:
It was announced today that Aardman has begun production on their next two animated feature length motion-pictures, Arthur Christmas and Pirates! Both films are to be released worldwide by Sony Pictures.
Commenting on the announcement, co-founder of Aardman Animations, Peter Lord said “It’s incredibly exciting to be moving forward on these two movies, and I’m thrilled to be back in the director’s chair for Pirates! We love to work in different animation styles ands techniques, so we’re producing Arthur Christmas in state-of-the-art CGI while for Pirates! we’re returning to our house style of hand-crafted modelling clay. The most important elements of any animated film are story and character, and we believe that in these films, we have characters to charm and stories to delight and engage.”
Pirates! - a swashbuckling adventure with a rich vein of surreal and broad comedy - is based upon The Pirates! (in an Adventure with Scientists), from the bestselling series of books by Gideon Defoe. The movie will be created with the same beautiful hand-crafted technique that Aardman brought to the feature films Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run. The story follows the fortunes of a cheerful but hapless pirate band as they cross the seven seas in search of the thing pirates love best: adventure. And what greater adventure can there be than battling Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz in an attempt to win the coveted Pirate of the Year trophy? From the Caribbean, their journey takes them to Victorian London, where they encounter Charles Darwin, an articulate ‘man-panzee’ named Mister Bobo, and an all-powerful enemy determined to wipe out pirates forever. The pirates find that their quest is a victory for good-natured optimism over the boring forces of common sense.
Production has also started on Aardman’s highly ambitious computer-animated feature film, Arthur Christmas. Set on Christmas night, the story at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation revealed by the movie is on a massive scale that requires the creation of a huge CGI world. But the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic – a family at seasonal loggerheads and an unlikely hero with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns. Aardman is working closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks on the animation for this CGI motion picture.
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katie
Aardman Staff
Apr 28th 2009
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Dobbydoodle
Apr 28th 2009
wow cool first post!!!
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kimpony
Apr 28th 2009
Shaun says he wants to be in the movies.
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Rachiee
May 1st 2009
Cool
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michiganfrog
May 15th 2009
awesome! I love pirates!
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garfield2
May 15th 2009
Very Good!
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Ivy-Alice
May 15th 2009
When will they be out?
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tessbugg
May 18th 2009
I LOVE THAT PIRATES BOOK!
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jenny furry
May 28th 2009
thats so kool
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ovica
Jun 8th 2009
And when find the films of Shaun in Spanish?
If I can find them anywhere, please post it!
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andjames
Jun 13th 2009
move no1: shaun the sheep
move no2 timmy's frst day -
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TimmyFan101
Jun 14th 2009
I look forward to to it! I love all of Aardmans work. Great animation! Keet it up!
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concon
Jul 12th 2009
Cool cant wait!
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Grumblefish
Sep 17th 2009
Then there is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardman_Animations Count Duckula the movie?
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