A Close Shave an invasion of evil aliens that want to take over Mossy Bottom Farm. A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following "A Grand Day Out" (1989) and "The Wrong Trousers" (1993). In "A Close Shave," Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like "The Wrong Trousers", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business.
The Wrong Trousers sleeps, Feathers marches him to the museum and uses the trousers to infiltrate the building. He uses a remotely-operated crane claw, contained in a helmet he has made Wallace wear, to capture the diamond, but triggers the alarm, waking a panicked Wallace. Feathers marches him back to the house and traps him and Gromit in a wardrobe at gunpoint. Gromit rewires the trousers to break open the wardrobe. He and Wallace chase Feathers aboard their model train set. Wallace disarms Feathers and frees himself from the trousers. After Feathers' train collides with the trousers, Gromit captures him in a milk