A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park for Aardman Animations, the third installment in the Wallace and Gromit series following A Grand Day Out and The Wrong Trousers. Wallace and Gromit are running a window-cleaning business when Wallace falls for local wool-shop owner Wendolene Ramsbottom, and the pair discover that her dog Preston is secretly running a sheep-rustling operation. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards, and a spin-off television series based on a character it introduced, Shaun the Sheep, later premiered in 2007. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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How long did it take to animate A Close Shave?
Ten months, with five animators each finishing five seconds a day.
The film took ten months to shoot. Five animators worked on it and each completed five seconds of animation per day.
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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.
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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park for Aardman Animations, the third installment in the Wallace and Gromit series following A Grand Day Out and The Wrong Trousers.
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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Close_Shave, opening sentence (nationality)
A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.
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It received similar acclaim as its predecessors and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards.
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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.
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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.
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