There’s a healthy tradition of sequels reaching screens T many years after their progenitors and doing so with a real creative kick and vigour. ChickenRun: DawnoftheNuggetis now among that company.
The original ChickenRunfilm, released in 2000, was Aardman’s first feature-leng th project, and in the years since other features have been produced by the studio. Now, 23 years later, DawnoftheNugget showcases the studio’s embrace of digital tools in the production of a stop-motion film.
An in-depth conversation with DawnoftheNugget’sdirector Sam Fell, the film’s production desig ner Darren Dubicki, and modelmaker Anne King begins with an observation from Fell. “I wanted DawnoftheNugget to feel like a constructed world, but not feel photoreal,” he says. “Nowadays the technolog y that we’ve used to aug ment the beautifully timeless technolog y of stop-motion has allowed us to move on to a bigger canvas.