Shaun The Sheep - Behind The Scene

Shaun The Sheep first appeared on television in 1995 in the film A Close Shave with characters Wallace and Gromit the dog. Duration is only four minutes but makes a lot of people liked it. And since then, Shaun has his own TV show on BBC-made by Aardman production studio.

Here are some interesting things from the process of making 'Behind The Scene' animation Shaun The Sheep:

 1. Making Storytime

An episode begins with a simple story ideas. The idea was presented to the team scriptwiters to be processed into a good story.

Then handed over to the storyboard artist to create a story linenya, this stage also helps set Dressers, prop-makers, model-makers, riggers and cameramen to prepare for taking pictures and what is needed.

2. Preparation Scene

The grass on the farm purchased from a hobby center, painted in shades of grass green to get fit, coupled with thatch grass and daisies.

Small black blobs are also deployed to get the effect of sheep droppings. The grass is then laid on top of perforated steel to get a good foundation. Animators can then use a magnet to keep the characters in place, and use the steel to put up trees, farmhouse, barn and other parts of the set remains in place.

3. Modeling

Model-makers make the sheep by first forming the body, then wrap their bodies with white wool. Feathers were then stained slightly and legs made of silicon ditambahakan. who heads can be mounted end-mounted dibadan off.

"We have a number of bodies, some have four legs, and some only two, depending on the scene," said Chris.

4. Propping Up

Property maker called on to make everything from sheep-sized beach towel, for bath toys for Timmy, and even tables for magic scene.

Prop maker Javes Helen said: "Everything is made manually, so it is very complicated. "Even the table legs are made manually to get the right shape." Prop maker, but the work is not without risk. A sharp knife cut fingers, and burn from the heat of the glue is the risk of daily worj.

5. Expression of Eyes

Eyes of sheep has a small hole so that they can be manipulated to make them look left, right, top, bottom.

Every animator also has dozens of special eyelid artificial - small pieces of clay shaped purple dome that can be added to create a blinking sheep eyeballs, or looks sleepy.

Because sheep did not speak, they use expressions to tell the story or provide moments of comedy. "Their eyelids are torture for animators eye".

6. Storage

When not used, sheep and lamb pieces can be found stored in the rack between the studio at Aardman.

It's here that the animators can find parts for Shaun feet, a little extra fur, or one or two sheep damaged!

7. Slapstik Comedy

Apart from some bleating from Shaun and his friends, a barking of Bitzer and grunts from the Farmer, Shaun and the sheep is silent TV series.
But while Wallace Gromit have a voice to keep the story going on in their films, Shaun does not have that luxury.

"It's easier to animate it due to lip-sync is one of the most time consuming aspect for the animators," says Chris.

8. Patient and Careful

Characters in Shaun and the sheep moving 25 times per second, means animators have to reset the scene 1,500 times just a minute of footage.
They completed an average of seven seconds recording / day.

seems not so much, but when compared with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run, they work at breakneck speed.

Wallace and Gromit on average produce about three seconds of footage / day.