Creature Comforts

Public to star in Creature Comfort-style Aardman shorts on the BBC

BBC audience members unscripted conversations are paired with charming stop-motion clay characters, created by independent studio, Aardman.

Aardman 'Life in Lockdown' captures pandemic fears

A new animated short uses the struggles of people in lockdown to raise awareness of wild animals in captivity. Aardman Animations and Engine have made Creature Discomforts: Life in Lockdown for the Born Free Foundation.

Aardman's 20 best films - ranked!

From early experiments in claymation TV to its forthcoming Shaun the Sheep big-screen sequel, we rate the animation studio's output.

Aardman Animations celebrates 40 years in Bristol

The creators of Wallace and Gromit, Morph and Shaun the Sheep are celebrating 40 years in the animation business..

The opposite of the sublime Creature Comforts (ITV1, Sunday), of course, where ten minutes feels like one, extremely lovely, second. As with so many of the best things in the world, how great it is lies in inverse proportion to how truly lunatic the idea is in the first place. Two married couples reworking Swedish folk-songs in the disco idiom? An animation team, spending two years synching random utterances from the British public to the actions of small Plasticine dogs and lice? This week, a man, rendered as a pig, did an impression of a cuckoo. It all deserves an Oscar.