Shaun The Sheep 2015 Full Movie

[Leontina Heidgerken]

Shaunthe Sheep is a stop-motion animated silent comedy children's television series which is developed by Aardman Animations. A spin-off in the Wallace and Gromit franchise, the series focuses on the adventures of Shaun, the eponymous sheep previously starring in A Close Shave, as the leader of his flock on a English farm. The series premiered on 5 March 2007 on CBBC in the UK, also airing on BBC Two. Since 2020, the series is streamed globally on Netflix. In March 2024, it was announced that the seventh series is in development and will premiere in 2025.[2] With 170 episodes over 6 series, Shaun the Sheep is one of the longest-running animated series in British television.

The show was produced by Aardman Animations and was commissioned by the BBC and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR),[3] a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. It has aired on BBC channels in the [lUK since 2007.

At the end of this short, Shaun is seen living with the duo; Shaun later made a brief cameo appearance in the "Shopper 13" episode of Wallace & Gromit's "Cracking Contraptions" web series. No official explanation has been given for the flock's transfer to the farm.

The first two series consisted of 40 seven-minute episodes each, and the third 20 episodes. The fourth series debuted on 3 February 2014.[5] The fifth series has 20 episodes and was first aired in the Netherlands from 1 December 2015 to 1 January 2016[6][7][8] and in Australia on ABC Kids from 16 January 2016 to 1 May 2016. In the United States, a series of Shaun the Sheep shorts aired between commercial breaks on Disney Channel starting on 8 July 2007.[9]

A series of 15 1-minute 3D shorts were released on Nintendo's Video service for the Nintendo 3DS between March and June 2012.[11] The Nintendo shorts were released in early 2016 on the official Shaun the Sheep YouTube channel under the name "Mossy Bottom Farm Shorts".[12] Another series of 21 1-minute sports-themed shorts, named Championsheeps, aired on CBBC during the Summer of 2012.[13]

In Germany, Shaun the Sheep is a part of "Die Sendung mit der Maus", a famous children's television series of German Television.[18] The creator of Die Sendung mit der Maus also is one of the production companies of Shaun the Sheep.

Adventures from Mossy Bottom features a new electronic version of the theme, a new intro episode sequence, and introduced new characters including a super-fast squirrel named Stash, a fancy neighbour Farmer Ben and his dog Lexi, and Rita the delivery lady.

Reviews of the series were consistently positive. Harry Venning of The Stage found "characterisation charming and the animation superb. All this before even a mention of how funny and splendidly slapstick the script is."[19] The Guardian noted that the series "hits the four-to-seven-year-old age group smack in the eye."[20] Series producer Gareth Owen said the age range is "four-to-seven, though in reality, the age range is four-to-eighty-seven", as the series is popular among all different age-groups.[21] Charles Arthur wrote "classic Aardman style that leaves me laughing out loud."[22]

Aardman developed a feature film Shaun the Sheep Movie,[34] written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, which was financed by French company StudioCanal,[35] and was released on 6 February 2015. The film received very positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics have given the film a positive review.[36] The film opened to $3.2 million in the UK and grossed $22 million in the UK and $106 million worldwide.[37]

In 2009, Aardman Animations released Timmy Time, a CBeebies spin-off series aimed at preschoolers. It centres on Timmy's own adventures as he attends nursery for the first time and learns how to interact and play with a variety of young animal friends.[40]

On 16 June 2008, D3 Publisher of America, which had previously published a game based on Aardman's 2006 film Flushed Away, announced that it would also release a video game based on Shaun's escapades. The Shaun the Sheep game was developed by Art Co., Ltd exclusively for Nintendo DS, and was released in autumn 2008.[41]

The Shaun the Sheep website is also home to several Flash-based games, including Home Sheep Home,[43] which was also made available at the iOS App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad in April 2011.[44] A sequel, Home Sheep Home 2, was released in December 2011 for Windows PCs, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.[45] It was released on the Steam digital distribution platform for Windows PCs in February 2014.[46] In March 2012 the iOS release was updated with a new chapter titled The Pirates! In an Adventure With Sheep to promote the upcoming Aardman film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!.[47]

A game entitled Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition was released in October 2019 for Nintendo Switch and PC, shortly after the similarly titled A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. It was later released for PlayStation and Xbox consoles in 2023. The game includes multiplayer-supported remasters of Home Sheep Home and Home Sheep Home 2, as well as a selection of new multiplayer minigames loosely based on the events of the movie. The PC version was released as an update to the existing PC port of Home Sheep Home 2.

On 9 March 2011, Shaun the Sheep made its live theatre debut in Shaun's Big Show.[51] The 100-minute (1 hour and 40 minute) long musical/dance show features all the regular characters, including Bitzer, Shirley, and Timmy.

On 26 September 2013, the International Rugby Board and Aardman Animations announced that Shaun and other characters from the franchise would be used in a merchandising programme to promote the 2015 Rugby World Cup to children.[53]

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep appeared as the face of the "Holidays at Home are Great" initiative. In the advert, seeing the Farmer going away, Shaun and the flock decide to have their own holiday around the UK before the Farmer gets back.[54]

In August 2022, The European Space Agency announced that Shaun would fly aboard the Artemis 1 mission which launched on 16 November 2022.[55][56][57] Shaun returned to Earth on December 11 when the Orion capsule reentered the atmosphere and splashed down.[58]

In May 2023, Natural England and Aardman Animations launched a new campaign for the countryside code, with Shaun the Sheep being the face of the campaign that tries to encourage young people and children to "respect, protect and enjoy" the countryside.[59]

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep starred in two public charity art trails to raise money for sick children in hospitals across the UK. Organised by Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation in collaboration with Aardman, Shaun in the City saw 50 giant artists and celebrity-decorated sculptures of Shaun appear in London in the spring before a further 70 appeared in Bristol throughout the summer.[60] All 120 sculptures were auctioned in October 2015, raising 1,087,900 for Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity.[61]

In 2015, a family attraction based on Shaun the Sheep, called "The Shaun the Sheep Experience" opened at Lands End, rebranded "Lamb's End" for the duration of the attraction. It features original sets, models, and characters from many Aardman productions. Using green screen technology, guests are able to "star" in a scene from the show, as well as meet other characters from the Aardman filmography including Wallace and Gromit and Morph.[63]

In the United Kingdom, the DVDs released from 2007 until 2011 were distributed by 2Entertain. DVDs from 2014 until 2018 were distributed by StudioCanal while Dazzler Media released the DVDs of 2024. In the United States, the DVDs were released by HIT Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Each stop-motion character is born in the Aardman workshops. Model makers work at desks piled high with tools, from soldering irons to hair dryers to the omnipresent magnifying glasses and lamps so they can see what they're doing.

The characters are made from different substances, depending on what they're required to do in each shot. The main material is modeling clay, complete with visible fingerprints which are left in to give the models a bit of life -- a quality Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park calls "thumbiness."

In Farmageddon, Shaun encounters the cute pink alien Lula -- even more curious and mischievous than the cheeky sheep -- whose body is made out of silicone so it stretch and squash more fluidly. The human models are rounded off with foam latex clothes, while the sheep are covered in curly fur. Every element can be swapped out, so in the workshops you see boxes full of heads, eyes, arms and other body parts. There are 22 different models of Shaun himself, with racks of different fur balls on the walls.

Underneath all the models is a highly articulated metal skeleton, known as an armature, so the characters can be moved into different positions. The naked aluminum skeleton is a bit of a weird sight, like some kind of sheep-shaped Terminator. But it gives the models much-needed sturdiness so the characters can be posed for each shot and then adjusted for the next frame, over and over again.

Shooting happens in the hangarlike studio, divided into individual workspaces varying in size up to 40 feet by 30 feet. The sets for each film are built from various materials, including vacuum-formed plastic and the gypsum-based material Jesmonite, though common elements such as trees are stockpiled and reused from previous productions. Farmageddon involved 27 animators working on 34 sets.

Sets are placed on waist-high platforms divided into movable blocks that can be slid out of the way so animators can get in and make changes. Each set is lit and then photographed with a Canon EOS-1D X dSLR still camera, using customized lenses to focus in on the models. The animator keeps track of progress with a monitor on wheels that can move around to show how the shot looks, as well as another monitor screen that shows the storyboard for the scene being worked on.

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