It would be unfair to ask any stop-motion animation buff to name their favorite Wallace & Gromit short, so we won't.
Nick Park's plasticine duo, an absent-minded Yorkshire inventor and his incredulous pooch, have starred in four shorts – "A Grand Day Out (1989)," "The Wrong Trousers (1993)," "A Close Shave (1995)," and "A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)" – and a 2005 feature film titled "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." According to Park, it takes a whole day to produce one second of film. "Were-Rabbit," which has a running time of 85 minutes, took five years to film.
Wallace and Gromit were honored in the United Kingdom on Nov. 4, 2009 with a Google Doodle.
Below is a clip from the climax of "A Close Shave." The sheep in the sweater, Shaun, starred in his own spinoff TV series from 2007 to 2010.
