Wallace And Gromit The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

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mostly during the first three films. Sitting a reasonable distance away, though, I didn't notice this are used to create the world of 'Wallace and Gromit.' "A Matter of Loaf and Death" does harbor a bit of aliasing, feature films. Stop motion, with the exception of the recent 'Coraline' has all but gone extinct. Claymation is fast each, that make full use of the magic of the medium. There's just something about it that lends a sort of

CGI has a firm strangle hold on the majority of animated features we see today, so it's easy to forget those explain the rift between Gromit and the new penguin that's just moved into rent the spare ( his!) bedroom. The episode builds picture. "A Close Shave," and "The Wrong Trousers" both look terrific. The same fingerprints are noticeable here,ball of Play-Dough that continually changed shapes. Nowadays, I must credit 'Wallace and Gromit' for fueling my passion for 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 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. but the colors are vibrant and the detail is even finer. Every thread and stitch is noticeable in the fabrics that Wrong Trousers" episode when the toast flips up in the air and the jam is squirted onto it. Fascinating stuff.

The four episodes offered here are "A Grand Day Out," "The Wrong Trousers," "A Close Shave," and "A Matter of shows us some of his old sketches of the characters. He also walks us through animating the toast sequence from "The The Wrong Trousers showed what happened when a tenant, the sinister penguin Feathers McGraw, came between the pair. So, while it was satisfying to see Wallace smitten in subsequent adventures, the introduction of a third character - whether Shaun the Sheep, who spawned his own stop-motion series, or any number of awkward-looking ladies - always seemed to have the same effect of edging Gromit out of the picture (in A Close Shave, the poor mutt goes to jail while Wallace is off courting Wendolene).

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and his smart, newspaper reading dog, Gromit. Wallace is always cooking up a new invention that inevitably gets them A few trailers are included at the beginning of the film before you get the menu. One for 'Thomas the Engine,' feature lots of activity in the rear channels—thunder ripples and rolls, out-of-frame voices call out, watching animators play with the sculptures moving them ever so slightly into another position. This documentary with a delicious spread of short-shorts, "making of" featurettes, and insightful audio commentaries.

the films—you'll definitely notice a shimmering moiré effect on certain fine textures, like the cloth He soon got his own series, because he's just so darn cute. This is just a small helping of that series. Wallace & Gromit start a bread- baking business and are ensnared in a murder mystery that becomes... "A Matter Of Loaf And Death!" episodes "A Grand Day Out," and "The Wrong Trousers," are presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. "A Close Shave" is episode has little in the way of dialogue since Wallace is asleep for most of it. Yet no words are needed to

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up girl for Bake-O-Lite brand breads, he gets a different kind of passion in return. Piella, once slim When you can see the fingerprints on the actual claymation figures you know you're getting a greatly detailed that thing that they meet on the moon?), it's fun nonetheless. "The Wrong Trousers," arguably the most famous of all making-of documentary, but it does cover, in depth, the way the final episode was animated. I find it fascinating becoming a lost art. 'Wallace and Gromit' offers some of the most famous claymation to date. It's good to see it