Creature Comforts: the first Oscar won by the creator of Chicken Run

Creature Comforts: the first Oscar won by the creator of Chicken Run

ByLeila

As early as 1991, Nick Park amazed moviegoers with this short film with its brilliant concept.

Chicken Run: The Nugget Menace has been available on Netflix since mid-December 2023. If this sequel is produced by Sam Fellthe first part released in 2001 was directed by Nick Park, pillar of the Aardman Animations studio. Specializing in stop-motion films, it was founded by Peter Lord but it is to Nick Park that we owe the creation of its most famous characters: Wallace and Gromit. Before experiencing great public and critical success thanks to this iconic duo and their chickens who escape from prison, Nick Park won his first Oscar in 1991 thanks to his first short film: Creature Comforts.

Little known but with a brilliant concept, this first short film was then released in the format of a series broadcast on English-speaking television. Taking up the idea of ​​a documentary, Nick Park uses the audio of interviews with ordinary people which he puts into images by associating them with plasticine animals. His pilot short film shows us zoo animals giving their opinion on their condition of captivity in the most serious way possible, a typically British concoction of social satire and absurd humor.

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The animation technique is already very accomplished, and we discern in the features of the animals, the familiar curves which are the signature of Nick Park and which characterize Wallace, Gromit, Ginger, Rocky and Shaun the Sheep. This concept stretched from 1989, when the first short was produced, until 2008, after having delivered several series for different British and American channels. And it’s your lucky day: all the episodes of Creature Comforts is available for free on the series’ official YouTube channel.

So don’t hesitate any longer, if you like the creations of the Aardman studio, there’s always time to take a look at Creature Comforts After Chicken Run: The Nugget Menaceavailable on Netflix.

Leila
Leila

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