Plasticine similar materials are often used in clay animation. One of its main proponents is Aardman Animations' Nick Park, who used characters modelled in Plasticine in his four Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit short films "A Grand Day Out" (1989), "The Wrong Trousers" (1993), "A Close Shave" (1995) and "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (2008), as well as the feature film "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (2005). This technique is popularly known as claymation in the US, and is a form of stop motion animation. Plasticine-like materials are appealing to animators because the material can be used with ease: it is
Nick Park United Kingdom's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4. Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television in 2003. His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, "", was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations'