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Wallace and Gromit are modelled in clay and moved a frame at a time. The figure is taken from Aardman, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Aardman animates plasticine characters by hand

Wallace and Gromit are modelled in clay and moved a frame at a time Aardman Animations, based in Bristol, builds its characters from modelling clay over metal armatures and animates them by hand, adjusting the models slightly for each frame. A Wallace and Gromit film can take months and many replacement mouths. The studio has won several Academy Awards for its short films. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Wallace and Gromit are modelled in clay and moved a frame at a time. The figure is taken from Aardman, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.