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	\| name = A Close Shave		\| name = A Close Shave
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	\| producer = ~~]<br />Michael Rose~~		\| producer = {{Plainlist\|
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	\| editing = Helen Garrard		\| editing = Helen Garrard
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	\| released = {{Film date\|df=yes\|1995\|12\|24}}		\| released = {{Film date\|df=yes\|1995\|12\|24}}
	\| runtime = ~~31 minutes (NTSC)<br>~~30 minutes ~~(PAL)~~<ref>{{~~cite~~ web\|title=A Close Shave\|url=~~http~~://www.bbfc.co.uk/~~releases~~/close-shave-~~1970-3\|publisher=British~~ ~~Board of Film Classification~~\|~~accessdate~~=~~27 November 2014~~}}</ref>		\| runtime = 30 minutes<ref>{{Cite web \|title=A Close Shave \|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/a-close-shave-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmzcwnzu \|website=]}}</ref>
	\| country = United Kingdom		\| country = United Kingdom
		⚫	\| budget = £1.3 million<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Production History – A Close Shave \|url=http://www.telepathy.co.uk/aardman/showcase/info/i_close02.html \|access-date=24 September 2012 \|website=Telepathy}}</ref>
	\| language = English
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	'''''A Close Shave''''' is a 1995 ] short film directed by ] at ] in ], ~~featuring~~ ~~his~~ ~~characters~~ ]. It ~~was~~ ~~his~~ third ~~half hour short~~ featuring ~~the eccentric inventor~~ Wallace, ~~and his quiet but intelligent dog~~ Gromit, following ~~1989's~~ '']'', and ~~1993's~~ '']''.		'''''A Close Shave''''' is a 1995 British ] short film co-written and directed by ] and produced by ] with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., ] and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring ], following '']'' (1989) and '']'' (1993).

			Like other films in the series, ''A Close Shave'' was acclaimed by critics. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|date=25 March 1996 \|title=The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners \|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1996 \|access-date=24 September 2012 \|website=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref> The film also saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the main character of the Shaun the Sheep spin-off series.
	To celebrate the film's premiere on ] 1995, ]'s ] presentation that year (broadcast from 17 to 22 December) featured Wallace and Gromit. The main ] featured the two (Wallace wears a red ] and Gromit wears a green crown) eating Christmas dinner, with a large blue '''2''' (the channel's logo) situated in the middle of the table, covered with flashing ].

			== Plot ==<!--DO NOT EXPAND THIS PLOT SUMMARY. this is a short film and does not require a long summary. See ]-->
	Several Christmas themed stings also involving Wallace, Gromit, and the 2 were shown between programmes. The animation of these idents appeared slightly different from other Wallace and Gromit shorts. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor ''The Wrong Trousers'', ''A Close Shave'' won the ] in March 1996.<ref>{{cite news\|title=The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners\|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1996 \|accessdate=24 September 2012\|newspaper=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\|date=25 March 1996}}</ref>
			Wallace and his dog, Gromit, operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog named Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, which shears sheep and knits the wool into jumpers. Wallace names the sheep ].

			Preston steals the Knit-o-Matic blueprints. When Gromit investigates, Preston captures him and frames him for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and imprisoned, while Wallace's house is inundated with sheep. Wallace and the sheep save Gromit and hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry to round up the sheep. When Wendolene demands Preston stop the rustling, he locks her in the lorry with the sheep and drives away, intent on turning them into dog food.
	== Plot ==
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	In the middle of the night, ] escapes from a mysterious lorry (truck) and enters the house of Wallace and Gromit, who are currently running a window-cleaning business. The next morning, Wallace and Gromit fail to notice the sheep chewing at their food and furniture, as well as their new Porridge Gun, before they leave for work.

			Wallace and Gromit give chase on their motorcycle. When Gromit's sidecar detaches, he activates its aeroplane mode and resumes the chase from the air. Wallace becomes trapped in the lorry and he, Wendolene, and the sheep are transported to Preston's dog food factory, where Preston has built an enormous Knit-o-Matic. The captives are loaded into the wash basin, but Shaun escapes. Shaun activates neon signs to reveal the factory's location to Gromit, who attacks Preston. Shaun sucks Preston into the Knit-o-Matic, removing his fur. Wendolene reveals that Preston is a robot created by her inventor father.
	While they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace meets and falls in love with Wendolene Ramsbottom, the shopkeeper. Wendolene mentions that she inherited the shop from her father who was also an inventor and owns a sinister dog named Preston, who runs a sheep rustling scheme to supply the shop. After returning from work, they finally discover the little lost sheep, who has wrecked their furniture and decorations.

			When the Knit-o-Matic dresses Preston in a sweater made of his fur, he inadvertently hits the controls, and the group become poised to fall into the mincing machine. Shaun pushes Preston into the machine, crushing him. Gromit is exonerated and Wallace rebuilds Preston as a harmless remote-controlled dog. Afterwards, Wallace is saddened when Wendolene leaves and tells him that she is allergic to cheese. When he tries to cheer himself up with some cheese, he finds that Shaun has eaten it all.<!--DO NOT EXPAND THIS PLOT SUMMARY. This is a short film and does not require a long summary. See ]-->
	Wallace puts the sheep into one of his inventions: the Knit-o-Matic, a machine for washing and shearing sheep and knitting the wool into jumpers. Gromit programs the machine to give a wash, but a fault causes the sheep to be sucked into the rest of the machine and sheared. When the sheep emerges, Wallace names him "Shaun" (a pun on the word "shorn") and dresses him in the jumper it knitted. Preston spies on the scene while hiding in a flood drain and after they leave, he sneaks in and steals the design blueprints for the Knit-o-Matic.

			== Production ==
	The next day, Wallace pays Wendolene another visit. Gromit attempts to investigate and find out what Preston is doing, but ends up getting captured by Preston and framed for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and sentenced to ] while Wallace finds his house overrun with sheep. Wallace, Shaun and the other sheep rescue Gromit from prison and they hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry and round up the sheep. Wendolene turns against Preston and demands that he should put an end to the rustling, revealing that Preston intends to use the sheep to make “]”. Preston locks Wendolene in the lorry with the captured sheep and drives away.
			], the co-founder of Aardman, had Park simplify the script to keep the film to 30 minutes. Lord said it once contained "the best scene we ever had to cut", a love scene based on '']'' between Wallace and Wendolene set in ].<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Shoard \|first=Catherine \|date=2023-08-21 \|title=Say cheese! Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers at 30 – in pictures \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum \|access-date=2025-01-08 \|work=] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

	Wallace and Gromit, who have been spying on the scene, give chase on their ]. The ] Gromit rides in separates, rushes down another road and off the edge of a 2000-foot cliff. Gromit saves himself by activating the sidecar's ability to turn into an aeroplane, and flies after Wallace's motorbike and the lorry. Their attempts to catch Preston, but fails as Wallace instead gets himself trapped in the lorry. The captives are transported to Preston's factory, where Preston has used the stolen blueprints to build a giant replica of the Knit-o-Matic machine. The captives are loaded into the wash basin, with Shaun escaping, and Preston pulls out the nozzle to suck them into the shearing machine.

	As they fight against the suction, Shaun activates some neon signs to reveal the factory's location to Gromit, who then flies in and attacks Preston with the porridge gun. Shaun then pulls the nozzle away to suck Preston into the Knit-o-Matic, which Gromit programs to give a "Close Shave". Wendolene reveals to a confused Wallace that Preston is actually a malfunctioning "]", created by her father to serve the family, which has "turned out evil".

	Preston breaks out of the machine with his ] ] completely ripped off, revealing his ]ic form. The machine plops a sweater made of his fake fur on him; he blunders around and raises the platform everyone is on up to level of the conveyor belt of his "Mutton-O-Matic" mincing machine. Gromit swings over them on a rope, knocking Preston and himself onto the conveyor belt. Preston rips apart his sweater at this point and they both start running. Wallace tries to turn off the machine, but inadvertently loads everyone else on as well (except Shaun). As they all fight against the belt, Shaun swings over them on an ] and knocks Preston into the machine, crushing and deactivating him.

	Gromit is exonerated from all charges of the thefts, Wallace has rebuilt Preston back to be completely harmless dog with a remote control, and Wendolene comes by to thank him. However, when Wallace invites her in to have cheese, Wendolene reveals that she dislikes cheese, which brings her out in a rash. This is greatly to Wallace's dismay ("Not even '']''?") and Wendolene says goodbye and leaves. A distraught Wallace decides to console himself with some cheese, only to find Shaun eating it. Wallace keeps calling Gromit to stop Shaun, but Gromit ignores him while Shaun happily munches away on the cheese.

	==Cast==		==Cast==
	* ] as Wallace		* ] as Wallace
	* ] as Wendolene		* ] as Wendolene Ramsbottom

	==Sequels==
	After ''A Close Shave'', ]'s next major outing was in a set of 10 2{{frac\|1\|2}} minute shorts called '']'', each showing one of Wallace's inventions, usually with disastrous results. These appeared on the internet, and were also released as a limited edition Region 2 DVD, later on the ''Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' DVD. The sequel to ''A Close Shave'' is the ] '']'' (2005). The next major short was '']'', first broadcast in the United Kingdom on ] 2008.

	==Spin-offs==
	Shaun, the youngest of the flock of sheep in this feature, proved to be a very popular character, and in March 2007, was given his television series on the ], entitled '']'', which has been broadcast worldwide.

	The first two series (80 episodes, each approximately seven minutes long) are available on ]. Each episode contains slapstick and situational humour, with Shaun as the leader of the flock dealing with everyday farm issues, while exhibiting a high level of intelligence and human like behaviour, to a level much like ].

			==Reception==
	In April 2009, '']'' itself spun off another series, aimed for toddlers, entitled '']''. Timmy was a baby sheep in Shaun's flock, and the series was an educational one about his time at playgroup. In February 2015, Shaun the Sheep received his own feature film, entitled '']''. A second film began production in January 2017.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Tartaglione\|first1=Nancy\|title=Aardman, Studiocanal Reunite Flock For ‘Shaun The Sheep Movie 2’ – AFM\|url=http://deadline.com/2016/10/shaun-the-sheep-movie-2-aardman-studiocanal-afm-1201842166/\|publisher=Deadline\|accessdate=25 October 2016\|date=25 October 2016}}</ref>
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			On ], ''A Close Shave'' has a perfect score of ] based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=A Close Shave \|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wallace_and_gromit_in_a_close_shave \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228014648/http://www.rottentomatoes.com:80/m/wallace_and_gromit_in_a_close_shave \|archive-date=28 February 2015 \|access-date=February 3, 2023 \|website=]}}</ref>

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1995 animated short film This article is about the animated film. For the band, see Close Shave. For the saying, see close call.

A Close Shave
US edition VHS cover art
Directed by	Nick Park
Written by	Bob Baker Nick Park
Produced by	Carla Shelley Michael Rose
Starring	Peter Sallis Anne Reid
Cinematography	Dave Alex Riddett
Edited by	Helen Garrard
Music by	Julian Nott
Production companies	Aardman Animations Wallace and Gromit Ltd. BBC Bristol BBC Children's International
Distributed by	BBC Worldwide
Release date	24 December 1995 (1995-12-24)
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Budget	£1.3 million

A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace & Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993).

Like other films in the series, A Close Shave was acclaimed by critics. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The film also saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the main character of the Shaun the Sheep spin-off series.

Plot

Wallace and his dog, Gromit, operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog named Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, which shears sheep and knits the wool into jumpers. Wallace names the sheep Shaun.

Preston steals the Knit-o-Matic blueprints. When Gromit investigates, Preston captures him and frames him for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and imprisoned, while Wallace's house is inundated with sheep. Wallace and the sheep save Gromit and hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry to round up the sheep. When Wendolene demands Preston stop the rustling, he locks her in the lorry with the sheep and drives away, intent on turning them into dog food.

Wallace and Gromit give chase on their motorcycle. When Gromit's sidecar detaches, he activates its aeroplane mode and resumes the chase from the air. Wallace becomes trapped in the lorry and he, Wendolene, and the sheep are transported to Preston's dog food factory, where Preston has built an enormous Knit-o-Matic. The captives are loaded into the wash basin, but Shaun escapes. Shaun activates neon signs to reveal the factory's location to Gromit, who attacks Preston. Shaun sucks Preston into the Knit-o-Matic, removing his fur. Wendolene reveals that Preston is a robot created by her inventor father.

When the Knit-o-Matic dresses Preston in a sweater made of his fur, he inadvertently hits the controls, and the group become poised to fall into the mincing machine. Shaun pushes Preston into the machine, crushing him. Gromit is exonerated and Wallace rebuilds Preston as a harmless remote-controlled dog. Afterwards, Wallace is saddened when Wendolene leaves and tells him that she is allergic to cheese. When he tries to cheer himself up with some cheese, he finds that Shaun has eaten it all.

Production

Peter Lord, the co-founder of Aardman, had Park simplify the script to keep the film to 30 minutes. Lord said it once contained "the best scene we ever had to cut", a love scene based on Brief Encounter between Wallace and Wendolene set in Crewe railway station.

Cast

Peter Sallis as Wallace
Anne Reid as Wendolene Ramsbottom

Reception

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (September 2021)

On Rotten Tomatoes, A Close Shave has a perfect score of 100% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10.

References

"A Close Shave". BBFC.
"Production History – A Close Shave". Telepathy. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
"The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 25 March 1996. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
Shoard, Catherine (21 August 2023). "Say cheese! Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers at 30 – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
"A Close Shave". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2023.

External links

v t e Shaun the Sheep
Created by Nick Park
Films	Shaun the Sheep Movie (accolades) A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Media	Episodes Timmy Time episodes Nintendo DS game Shaun in the City Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition
See Also	Aardman Animations Wallace & Gromit A Close Shave

Wallace & Gromit

Created by Nick Park

Films

Feature films	The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Vengeance Most Fowl
Short films	A Grand Day Out The Wrong Trousers A Close Shave A Matter of Loaf and Death

Other appearances

Spin-offs

Shaun the Sheep
- episodes
Timmy Time
- episodes

Video games

Attractions

v t e Films directed by Nick Park
A Grand Day Out (1989) Creature Comforts (1989) The Wrong Trousers (1993) A Close Shave (1995) Chicken Run (2000) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012) Early Man (2018) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

Awards for A Close Shave

v t e Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
1932–1950	Flowers and Trees (1932) Three Little Pigs (1933) The Tortoise and the Hare (1934) Three Orphan Kittens (1935) The Country Cousin (1936) The Old Mill (1937) Ferdinand the Bull (1938) The Ugly Duckling (1939) The Milky Way (1940) Lend a Paw (1941) Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943) Mouse Trouble (1944) Quiet Please! (1945) The Cat Concerto (1946) Tweetie Pie (1947) The Little Orphan (1948) For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
1951–1975	The Two Mouseketeers (1951) Johann Mouse (1952) Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953) When Magoo Flew (1954) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956) Birds Anonymous (1957) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) Moonbird (1959) Munro (1960) Ersatz (The Substitute) (1961) The Hole (1962) The Critic (1963) The Pink Phink (1964) The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966) The Box (1967) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969) Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970) The Crunch Bird (1971) A Christmas Carol (1972) Frank Film (1973) Closed Mondays (1974) Great (1975)
1976–2000	Leisure (1976) The Sand Castle (1977) Special Delivery (1978) Every Child (1979) The Fly (1980) Crac (1981) Tango (1982) Sundae in New York (1983) Charade (1984) Anna & Bella (1985) A Greek Tragedy (1986) The Man Who Planted Trees (1987) Tin Toy (1988) Balance (1989) Creature Comforts (1990) Manipulation (1991) Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992) The Wrong Trousers (1993) Bob's Birthday (1994) A Close Shave (1995) Quest (1996) Geri's Game (1997) Bunny (1998) The Old Man and the Sea (1999) Father and Daughter (2000)
2001–2025	For the Birds (2001) The ChubbChubbs! (2002) Harvie Krumpet (2003) Ryan (2004) The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005) The Danish Poet (2006) Peter & the Wolf (2007) La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008) Logorama (2009) The Lost Thing (2010) The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011) Paperman (2012) Mr Hublot (2013) Feast (2014) Bear Story (2015) Piper (2016) Dear Basketball (2017) Bao (2018) Hair Love (2019) If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) The Windshield Wiper (2021) The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (2023)
Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award

BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation

A Grand Day Out (1989)
Toxic (1990)
Balloon (1991)
Daumier's Law (1992)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
The Big Story (1994)
A Close Shave (1995)
The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1996)
Stage Fright (1997)
The Canterbury Tales (1998)
The Man With The Beautiful Eyes (1999)
Father and Daughter (2000)
Dog (2001)
Fish Never Sleep (2002)
Jo Jo in the Stars (2003)
Birthday Boy (2004)
Fallen Art (2005)
Guy 101 (2006)
The Pearce Sisters (2007)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Mother of Many (2009)
The Eagleman Stag (2010)
A Morning Stroll (2011)
The Making Of Longbird (2012)
Sleeping With The Fishes (2013)
The Bigger Picture (2014)
Edmond (2015)
A Love Story (2016)
Poles Apart (2017)
Roughhouse (2018)
Grandad Was A Romantic (2019)
The Owl and the Pussycat (2020)
Do Not Feed the Pigeons (2021)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
Crab Day (2023)

v t e Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film
1980s	The Little Mermaid (1989)
1990s	The Rescuers Down Under (1990) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Aladdin (1992) Mighty River (1993) The Lion King (1994) Toy Story (1995) A Close Shave / Creature Comforts / A Grand Day Out / The Wrong Trousers (1996) Hercules / The Spirit of Christmas (1997) A Bug's Life (1998) The Iron Giant (1999)
2000s	Chicken Run (2000) Shrek (2001) Spirited Away (2002) The Triplets of Belleville (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Happy Feet (2006) Persepolis / Ratatouille (2007) Waltz with Bashir (2008) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
2010s	Toy Story 3 (2010) Rango (2011) Frankenweenie (2012) Ernest & Celestine (2013) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2014) Anomalisa (2015) Your Name (2016) The Breadwinner (2017) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) I Lost My Body (2019)
2020s	Wolfwalkers (2020) Flee (2021) Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) The Boy and the Heron (2023) Flow (2024)

v t e Aardman Animations
Filmography
Short films	Animated Conversations Down and Out (1977) Confessions of a Foyer Girl (1978) Conversation Pieces On Probation (1983) Sales Pitch (1983) Sweet Disaster: Babylon (1986) Sledgehammer (1986) My Baby Just Cares for Me (1987) Barefootin' (1987) A Grand Day Out (1989) Lip Synch Creature Comforts (1989) Going Equipped (1990) War Story (1989) Ident (1990) Next (1990) Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1991) Rex the Runt: Dreams (1991) Adam (1992) Never Say Pink Furry Die (1992) Loves Me, Loves Me Not (1992) Not Without My Handbag (1993) The Wrong Trousers (1993) Pib and Pog (1995) A Close Shave (1995) Rex the Runt: North by North Pole (1996) Wat's Pig (1996) Pop (1996) Owzat (1997) Stage Fright (1997) Humdrum (1998) Al Dente (1998) Viva Forever (1998) Minotaur and Little Nerkin (1999) The Deadline (2001) Len's Lens (2002) Angry Kid: Who do you think you are? (2004) The Pearce Sisters (2007) A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) Dot (2010) Gulp (2011) Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise (2011) Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue (2012) Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012) A Pig's Tail (2012) The Pirates!: So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012) Darkside trailer (2013) Sphere (2013) Ray's Big Idea (2014) Special Delivery (2015) Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015) Robin Robin (2021) Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021) Star Wars: Visions: I Am Your Mother (2023)
Television series / series of shorts	Animated Conversations (1977–78) The Amazing Adventures of Morph (1980–81) Conversation Pieces (1983–84) Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986, Penny cartoons, Season 1 only) Lip Synch (1989) The Morph Files (1996) Rex the Runt (1998–2001) Angry Kid (1999–2019) Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002–03) Creature Comforts (2003–07) episodes Planet Sketch (2005-07) Purple and Brown (2005–08) Pib and Pog (2006) Shaun the Sheep (2007–present) episodes Chop Socky Chooks (2007–08) Timmy Time (2009–12) episodes Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention (2010) Canimals (2011–present) DC Nation Shorts: DC's World's Funnest (2012–14) Counterfeit Cat (2016–17) Star Wars: Visions ("I Am Your Mother"; 2023)
Feature films	Chicken Run (2000) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Flushed Away (2006) Arthur Christmas (2011) The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) accolades Early Man (2018) A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
Franchises	Morph (1977–present) Creature Comforts (1989–2011) Wallace & Gromit (1989–present) Angry Kid (1998–2019) Chicken Run (2000–present) Shaun the Sheep (2007–present)
People	Peter Lord Nick Park David Sproxton

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