CREATURE COMFORTS - HOW IT'S DONE

CREATURE COMFORTS


Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals felt about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public which were spoken by animated animals in the short films.

It was created by Nick Park and Aardman animations. They chose the animals being animated based on the character's voice and the theme of the conversation.
Beforehand, to achieve a sense of realism they would act out the scenes in real life to see how the characters are portrayed compared to what they would look like being animated.




Here is a short montage which really captivated what Creature Comforts is about and how it relates to real life interviewes.

They mainly use eyes/eyebrows to captivate and convey their emotions across to the public. Initially, when constructing these animation the crew and animators found it hard to and long to make the character's mouth move in every scene so what they decided to do instead is take the mouths on and off, each with a different expression which saved a lot of time.

They also recorded the sound using phonetics, which is very unique as other animations don't do so. in order to do this they would break down each individual word and letter to match it with the movement of the mouth.

It takes a whole day's worth of filming and animating in order to shoot 4 seconds of the animation, which really emphasise how much patience and skills is used to create one single episode.

The animators have decided to use plasticine in order to create their animated characters. They use plasticine because they believe that it is the best and easiest way to really get emotions out of the characters created. They use a mixture of tragic and comic themes in order to get a real reflection of human emotions through animation.

Overall, they turned an interview which could be very mundane and boring into something very interesting and humorous to watch.

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