Stop Motion Pro is working closely with the team behind the Academy Award® winning filmmakers AARDMAN.  The latest Aardman Wallace and Gromit half hour special, "A Matter of Loaf and Death" was filmed using Stop Motion Pro HD Studio.

See some great behind the scenes Wallace and Gromit footage here.  We have some exclusive photos and the trailer here .

Update - Congratulations for winning the 2009 Audience Award for Best Short film at the Golden Space Needle International Film Festival

Update - Wallace & Gromit's latest adventure, "A Matter of Loaf and Death " hit UK TV screens last Christmas and scooped the prestigious title of 'most viewed show of the year (2008)' with over 14.3 million viewers

Update - Wallace and Gromit wins a BAFTA for "A Matter of Loaf and Death.  Congratulations from Stop Motion Pro, Wallace and Gromit!

Ian Flemming (Head of Production Technology) and the team at AARDMAN (http://www.aardman.com/) have created a new half hour Wallace and Gromit special, released in 2008 - "A Matter of Loaf and Death ".

“Since the last W&G short was shot in 1994, technology has moved on a great deal. Although we still plan to shoot our stop frame feature films traditionally using 35mm Mitchell film cameras there is clearly a huge amount of digital technology used during the production. Our stop frame commercials and television work has been using digital capture technology for many years now and this project was a great opportunity to bring ourselves right up to date with a production process which gives us extremely high quality images linked to all the advantages of a digital workflow.

Using high-end digital stills cameras with Stop Motion Pro V6 is a wonderful solution for us enabling to playback the high resolution animation frames in real time so that we can make creative decisions on set instantly. With Stop Motion Pro interfacing directly to the DSLR cameras, the director and animators can work at a level of precision unavailable until now,” said Ian Fleming, Head Of Production Technology at Aardman.

“Working closely with the team at Aardman has given us great insights into the requirements of world leading animators,” says Ross Garner (above right) from Stop Motion Pro. “We are proud to be working on such a high profile production, creating world leading technology that will benefit the stop motion animation industry. Techniques pioneered will substantially reduce costs of all future stop motion short films, advertisements and feature films.”

About Stop Motion Pro
Stop Motion Pro (www.stopmotionpro.com) was founded in 1999 by Ross Garner and Paul Howell (left), producing world leading software for stop motion animation production. Stop Motion Pro has become a standard tool for teaching animation techniques in schools and universities around the world. Animation studios have also embraced Stop Motion Pro, with feature films, television series and commercials in production around the world in 2009.