Hello, my name is Justin the Clueh, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And today, we're talking about plasticine animation, not claymation, because that's copyrighted.

Wait, I didn't realize that. This isn't claymation?

Claymation does exist, but it was copyrighted by the guy who created the California

Raisins.

Cromit!

Cromat!

Yes, this week we're talking about Nick Park.

I don't think we can talk about Nick Park without talking about Ardman Animation a little bit as well.

Yeah, Nick Park is kind of their Miyazaki, isn't he?

Yeah.

I mean, Armin Animation was a company that was created by two friends who just loved animation.

And they started by creating this character called Morph that was really popular in the UK.

He was on like a sketch show doing like interstitial like The Simpsons.

And eventually Nick Park got involved with them and they did commercials and music videos and stuff like that because that's where the real money is.

If you're an animator, not these big feature films.

But Nick Park is most famous for, like Will just screamed out in agony, Wallace and Grommet.

Something that seemingly played on PBS every time you visit your grandparents' house. What was your relationship with Wallace and Gromit, something that seemingly played on PBS every time you visit your grandparents'

house. What was your relationship with Wallace and Gromit growing up? I didn't really have one.

I think I just stated it, that it was playing on television when I was visiting grandparents,

or, you know, a stepmom's sister who was a real, like, anglophile. Wallace and Grommer seemed to be on all the time there.

I don't know. As a kid, it seemed like a little too slow pace to me. And the novelty of stop motion,

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