Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
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Steve Box. Steven Royston Box (born 23 January 1967) is an English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations . His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation. Box joined Aardman Animations in 1990.
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- 1984–present
Steve Box. Writer: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Steve Box was born on 23 January 1967 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Stage Fright (1997) and Chicken Run (2000).
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Steve Box was born on January 23, 1967 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Stage Fright (1997) and Chicken Run (2000).
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Steve was born and bred in Bristol, where Peter Lord and David Sproxton started Aardman Animations in the 1970s, with their little brown plasticine character 'Morph.' But Steve points out that he is actually from Kingswood, which to a local lad is quite a different place. "I mean," he explains, "you're talking about five miles away, but for some re...
Steve reckons that he got his first job in animation "by pure fluke." When he was still at school, and drawing all the time, his dad saw an incongruous ad in the local paper saying 'Cartoonists Wanted.' "I phoned it up," says Steve, "and it just happened to be two roads away from where I lived." This was CMTB Animation, a two man company, who at th...
"When Aardman started to develop, which for me was really when Nick came along, when Creature Comfortspopped up -- they were slicker, funnier, the stories were better -- they were a kind of black hole for work. We made a couple of commercials at CMTB, but after that, if anyone wanted a commercial, they went to Aardman, and our work just dried up. I...
By that time, however, he had already collaborated with Nick Park on The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. His first encounter with Wallace and Gromit came much earlier though. "When I was working at CMTB, the guy who was editing The Trapdoor for us, Rob Copeland, was also editing A Grand Day Out,and he would sometimes use our Steenbeck. I remember...
Aardmannow has a department developing computer-generated animation, and I felt I should ask Steve whether he was interested in moving into that area. "I would never want to use a computer to animate. Whether I ever direct computer animators, I can't say that would bother me. Again, this goes back to spontaneity. I get a buzz from being in a studio...
Aardman is famous for its lip synch technique, and yet Steve's most famous character, the penguin Feathers McGraw, is a silent character. Steve's own film, Stage Fright,deals with the crossover period between music hall and silent film. I wondered if those two details were pure coincidence, or whether silent film held a particular fascination for h...
He suspected I'd been fed the question -- "because that's my ultimate ambition, to make a model animated, feature-length musical. I wouldn't say that James and the Giant Peach and Nightmare before Christmas are musicals, they're films with songs. One of my favourite films ever is Oliver!It's got the feel of an old music hall, the songs are all inte...
Finally, Steve talked about his future plans: "Nick and I are working on a Wallace and Gromit feature film, and at the moment we're writing, along with Bob Baker [who co-wrote The Wrong Trousers and Close Shavewith Nick]. So I'm a new addition to the writing team this time, but it's going really well." I asked how he felt about the prospect of co-d...
An interview with Steve Box, a long-time animator and co-director at Aardman Animations, who worked on Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Stage Fright. He shares his stories of learning animation, working with Nick Park and Peter Lord, and his views on the craft.
Oct 7, 2005 · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Directed by Steve Box, Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay. Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.
- Steve Box, Nick Park
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Steve Box (born 23 January 1967 in Bristol) is an Oscar-winning English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Box, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
