There's no way I'd imagined it wasn't done in a professional setup by a full team.

A real standout part is how he commuted by bus to the studio for years, to work on it mostly alone. Truly amazing dedication to a passion project.

I haven't watched it in probably 25 years but I'll find it now and appreciate it all the more for knowing this!

https://youtu.be/jrmZIgVoQw4?feature=shared

When "The Wrong Trousers" got to the part where Gromit was frantically laying tracks for the train, the entire audience was laughing and clapping, including me. :-)

As great as the post-A Close shave features are, something was definitely lost when they started adding more characters and expanded the universe.

but it made me miss my dad a lot and i'd cry the whole time. we had it on vhs and there were like 4 or 5 of them, so i'd watch them over and over. i was like 3 or 4 or something.

its weird to say but even as an adult i cannot make it through more than 10-15 min of the movie.

I saw a poster for a new Shaun the Sheep movie recently, so they're still making them! And it looks like they're still doing it "properly", old school stop motion? That's fantastic.

Grand Day Out is a fantastic watch, the animation, characters and story telling are so fun for really anyone of any age.

Asked about his preference for stop motion, Park once explained:

I think it’s because I’d been brought up on a diet of children’s 3D animation.

What is 3d animation referring to here? This guy grew up in the 60's.

This is way, way beyond the usual vertical drama AI slop. It's a project that raises the question of whether the whole Disney studio system is obsolete.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikm5lP0zsi0

"'There now follows a sequence where Wallace and Gromit build a rocket.' It was just a paragraph. I started on that paragraph, and a year and a half later, I actually finished the sequence!"

Very relatable experience.