Gilbert - A Grand Day Out - part 1

 

Last Monday we went on an outing!

We went to Storyworld, where they had an Aardman expo!

It was called Shaun the Sheep and Friends, but it was about all the wonderful stop motion pictures of Aardman.

They had buildings that were used in Wallace and Gromit, one of my favorite shows!

A Close Shave!

That's the name of the Wallace and Gromit episode that introduced Shaun.

I think this was a display from one of the Shaun the Sheep movies.

A figurine from  a disability awareness campaign Aardman did.

This disguised penguin is from Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers.

There were lots of story boards and concept art as well. This is the rocket from Wallace and Gromit's first adventure: A Grand Day Out.

And the real rocket!

It was so cool to see the actual size of things.

This is concept art for The Pirates! Band of Misfits. It's the Captain and Polly. I love Polly!

Two dogs in a dumpster.

They also had booths where you could try to make your own stop motion movie, but we didn't try them out. But it was so cool to see how stop motion is done. It is a lot of work.

I must say that those sets were perfectly McPig-sized.

There was so much detail in all those sets.

Amazing.

A Were-Rabbit

Coming Next: more cool Aardman things.