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‘A Grand Day Out’ (full name ‘A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit’) is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit.
In the film, Wallace and Gromit spend a bank holiday by building a rocket to the Moon to sample some cheese.
… Sequels:
• 1993’s The Wrong Trousers, • 1995’s A Close Shave, • 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, • 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death.¤ THE SNOWMAN ⇐(1978)
Wordless (save for the song «Walking in the Air«) animated adventure about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, only for it to come to life that night and take him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.directed by Dianne Jackson in 1982.
“the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only.” -Raymond Briggs
We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I’m holding very tight
I’m riding in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you
Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams
Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes
We’re surfing in the air
We’re swimming in the frozen sky
We’re drifting over icy
Mountain floating by
Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep
We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly
¤ Read a brief puffin.co.uk interview with Raymond Briggs ↓
PLACE & DATE OF BIRTH:
Wimbledon Park, London, 18 January 1934
FAVOURITE BOOK:
Bomber – Len Deighton
FAVOURITE SONG:
National Brotherhood Week – Tom Lehrer
MOST TREASURED POSSESSION:
My house
FAVOURITE FILM:
Brief Encounter
When did you start illustrating?
In 1957 when I left Art School. I tried all the three fields of illustration: 1) Advertising, 2) Magazine & newspapers, 3) Books. I soon found I enjoyed book illustration the most, despite it being the poorest paid. But then I discovered that book illustration meant CHILDREN’S BOOKS! Ugh! And Yuk! However, I soon realised children’s books were wonderful to illustrate and so I have been at it for the last 44 years.
Where do you get your ideas?
I don’t know. Prefer not to think about it. I always tell interviewers not to ask this question.
Can you give you top 3 tips to becoming a successful illustrator?
1. Learn to draw! (From life and from memory)
2. Learn to paint! (From life and from memory)
3. Don’t fiddle about on computers. They are a useful tool when you know what you are doing, but they can make you feel clever when you are not.
Favourite memory
Coming home after the Army. The warmth and comfort of our little kitchen. Seeing my mum and dad and girlfriend. Carpets on the floor! Curtains! The women in pretty clothes. A cloth on the table. China cups and saucers. A comfortable bed. Food you could eat and no one shouting at me.
Favourite place in the world and why?
My work room at home where I can read, write, draw and paint. It is quiet and peaceful as the house is on its own and is in a country lane with views over miles of fields.
What are your hobbies?
Fishing, walking in the country, going round second-hand bookshops, collecting and framing jigsaw puzzles of the Queen Mother and collecting LP covers of Mrs Mills.
If you hadn’t been an illustrator, what do you think you would have been?
Probably some sort of writer and journalist. Radio plays, stage plays, short stories, novels, I would have had a bash at all of these.
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