Welsh beach becomes world’s largest set for a stop-motion film | Metro.co.uk
What at first looks like a child’s sand sculpture is actually a gigantic film set for a stop-motion animation feature.
The beach is real – but so is the fisherman and the boat, filmed over a 1,000sq m (11,000sq ft) stretch of shore at Pendine Sands in South Wales – making it the world’s biggest set of its kind.
The short film was made by animators and student volunteers over just one week, using three Nokia N8 smartphones attached to a cherry picker 36m (118ft) in the air.
‘Gulp’, from Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations, is released today and tells the story of a lone fisherman who becomes fishfood himself before ... well, that would spoil the ending.
Co-director Will Studd said: ‘The film was a huge test of planning and coordination with mother nature. We were incredibly lucky with conditions and tide times – sometimes we got our final frame for the day just as the waves crashed in around our set.’
Prop designers built a life-size fishing boat, used by a ‘fisherman’ – pixelation artist William Todd. The fish, seagulls and sea were created with rakes.
Last year the team set the record for the world’s tiniest stop-motion character – a 9mm star called Dot.
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