Two decades after a group of chickens escaped from a farm, they’re back for more. Netflix’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is a sequel 23 years in the making, and it is much bigger in scope than its predecessor. After all, the film is about breaking back into a farm — one substantially bigger than in the first film. In order to handle the scale of the story and the production, which more than doubled the number of units and character models, Aardman Animations turned to digital tools and virtual production.
“We couldn’t achieve the scope and scale of this film 20 years ago because CG wasn’t a reliable source,” animation supervisor Ian Whitlock told IndieWire during a visit to the set of the film at Aardman’s studios in Bristol, U.K. “But even with CG, we are still very tight on the style of the animation.
“We couldn’t achieve the scope and scale of this film 20 years ago because CG wasn’t a reliable source,” animation supervisor Ian Whitlock told IndieWire during a visit to the set of the film at Aardman’s studios in Bristol, U.K. “But even with CG, we are still very tight on the style of the animation.
- 12/14/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Indiewire
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