16 years since the duo’s last onscreen adventure, Wallace & Gromit will be back on our TVs this Christmas. Here, we speak to its creator and director Nick Park, co-director Merlin Crossingham and supervising animator Will Becher to take a look at the legacy of the adored animation.

Jul 11, 2024 · Anna-Laura Sullivan makes watercolour comics that are all about being human, but “ironically these are painted with little critters”, she says.

Dec 16, 2024 · 35 years ago, a plasticine man donning a sweater vest and slippers, and his mute yet expressive plasticine dog walked onto our TV screens. Wallace & Gromit’s arrival struck a chord with audiences of the late 80s, with its handmade touch and careful blend of humour, charm and wit.It was novel yet nostalgic, posing new possibilities for the world of animation with a portrayal of Britishness ...

Mar 20, 2024 · Quite unsurprisingly, taking one of top spots this year is designer Sun Young Oh’s cat flow charts. While we know we have an animal-loving readership, we think it might have actually been the designer’s process that really captured you all, with his visual investigation of words in a careful crossover between art and typography.

Dec 4, 2024 · INT: Initially, how did you hope to convey the theme in the overall art direction for this year’s campaign? RW: The themes of reinvention, evolution and merging genres come to life in many different ways, beginning with an art direction that loops, transforms, and celebrates the energy of this unique moment in time. This includes …

From comics to editorial spots, hand-drawn to digital, 2D to 3D, here we showcase fantastic illustrators and their inspiring work...

Dec 9, 2024 · The hit multimedia puppet show Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (DHMIS) from Blinkink, and directors Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling has come full circle with a new website – published some 13 years after Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared was first launched on YouTube. “We wanted a place for people outside of the UK to see the Channel 4 show and for reasons we simply cannot talk about, Netflix were not ...

Dec 3, 2024 · To mark Disability History Month 2024 and International Day of Disabled People (today, 3 December), the artist James Lake, known for his life-size cardboard characters, sculptures and scenes, has released an animated short film Another Day.The poignant film explores themes of loneliness, routine, and the nature …

Oct 10, 2024 · We last covered comic artist Tara Booth in 2019 when she released her book Cabin In the Woods, exploring the difficulties of city dwelling, and the possibilities of her going totally nomad and living out in the wilderness.Five years later, we’ve caught up with Tara following the release of her latest collection of comics, Processing: 100 comics that got me through it.

Oct 4, 2024 · Nishant Choksi has contributed to some of our favourite editorial projects of recent years. He illustrated Volume One of The Guardian’s Long Read magazine (a rare physical publication), providing drawings for the cover and inside pages. The expressive faces that covered issues one through 12 of Real Review were also his. And yet, despite a client list of heavyweight editorial commissioners ...