With the closure of the only supplier of a particularly practical film paste, the studio has just enough stock to finish the next Wallace and Gromit.
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It’s a crisis that we hadn’t seen coming in the world of cinema and, more specifically, of animation. The Aardman studio, known for its stop-motion and modelling clay animation techniques, notably on popular franchises such as Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit, could lose its trademark. According to The Telegraph, the company that made its modeling clay specifically for animation has closed down, jeopardizing the studio’s future productions.
Founded in England in 1972, Aardman Animations quickly stood out from the competition with the use of clay and clay to animate its characters. The material in question is called Newplast, after its creator Lewis Newplast. It is a mixture of sugar, aluminium and moulding paste, which was made by a single company in Torquay, in the south of England. From now on, the Aardman studio will have to do without and possibly abandon its singular technique for its next films, even if the remaining stock will allow it to complete the next adventures of Wallace and Gromit, expected in 2024.
The moulding paste created by Lewis Newplast is easy to grind and particularly effective in keeping its shape over the long term. For the time being, Aardman is planning to find a replacement, or even make their own Newplast, which could cost them a lot. Meanwhile, the British firm is focusing on the release of Chicken Run: The Nuggets Menace, its new feature film expected on Netflix on December 15th.
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