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Article: Poultry in motion: Patience put the go in 'Chicken Run'
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 29, 2000
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How long did it take "Chicken Run" to cross the road?
It took nearly two years to get to the other side. That's how
long it took to create 85 minutes of stop-motion animation for the
film (and Aardman Animations managed that only by boosting its staff
to 385, more than double its normal size). "Chicken Run" is the
first feature-length effort from Aardman, British creators of the
Oscar-winning "Wallace & Gromit" shorts. Stop-motion remains so
endearingly low-tech that its "digital" elements consist almost
entirely of people's fingers. Using latex and silicone, the
animators create regiments of cluckless, pluckless Plasticine