Nick Park & The Legacy of Wallace & Gromit - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

The Wallace & Gromit animation series has spanned over 35 years, thanks to its creator Nick Park and the famous stop motion production company at which he works, Aardman Animations. Vengeance Most Fowl marks the latest chapter in the story of Wallace & Gromit. It's a film that just premiered on Netflix. In the animated comedy, Wallace invents a smart gnome named Norbot. The gnome performs a variety of gardening tasks, attracting attention from some of the locals and the local TV news station. Things go haywire when Norbot begins to develop a mind of its own. Nick Park joins Bullseye to talk about the film and decades long career in animation. Plus, Nick Park answers our most paramount question: Has he met any real life dogs named Gromit, and how many of those dogs were good boys? Where else are you going to get journalism like that, we ask. 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Interview Start 01:07 - Robots 02:45 - Gromit and Gestures 04:48 - Peter Lord & Early Aardman Animations 06:17 - The Wallace Wave 07:48 - Cheese 08:38 - Writing "A Grand Day Out" 09:41 - Pee-wee's Playhouse Animations 11:07 - Creature Comforts 13:48 - Creature Comforts' Simplicity 16:40 - Asking The Right Questions for Creature Comforts 17:34 - Nick Park's Animation at 13 19:45 - Filmic look of Aardman Animations 23:40 - Hand Animation vs Digital Animation 26:29 - Working With Clay 29:13 - Wallace & Gromit and Anachronisms 29:42 - How Has Age Changed Nick's approach 32:11 - Gags in The Background 33:53 - From "A Grand Day Out" to Today 36:30 - Goodbyes Want to hear more? Subscribe to Bullseye now via Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Get MORE of Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: ► FOLLOW us on Instagram: /   / bullseyewithjessethorn   ► FOLLOW us on X: / https://x.com/Bullseye ► LIKE us on Facebook: /   / bullseyewithjessethorn   ► VISIT our show page: / https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/bulls... Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary minds in our culture. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world."