Preston is a robotic dog created by Fred Ramsbottom to help with his wool factory. After Fred died, Preston took care of his daughter, Wendolene, who now owns the wool factory and shop. With a home-made rocket and large appetite they head for the moon, hoping to find it made of cheese. Thankfully Nick was eventually reunited with the models. Wendolene has a very mean dog named Preston who frames Gromit for sheep rustling. As Preston, Gromit, Wallace, Wendolene and the flock head towards a mincing machine, Shaun swings foward and knocks Preston into the machine, jamming it and saving the others. Preston is a robotic dog created by Fred Ramsbottom to help with his wool factory. Nick tries to make sure everyone gets a reply, so to make things fair as possible, please don’t request multiple copies to share or sell on.Nick’s got loads of sketchbooks full of Wallace & Gromit ideas for the future, so Aardman isn't looking for external submissions at the moment.Nick was an Executive Producer on Shaun the Sheep The Movie – he was involved with the initial story idea, and gave feedback during to production to help shape the final movie. In A Close Shave, Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog.
Merlin, who started his career as an animator at Aardman back in 1996, was Second Unit Director on The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and he also co-directed another much-loved Aardman classic, Creature Comforts USA, the series.As Creative Director for the characters, Merlin oversees everything to do with Wallace and Gromit, including new commercials, live shows, products and more – to make sure that the special and unique charm of Wallace and Gromit continues to enchant and inspire fans both old and new.Nick’s next full-length feature is scheduled for release in 2018 and is called ‘Early Man’. Nick’s work has also included executive production on television animation hits such as 'Shaun the Sheep'. Wallace, and the sheep go to Gromit's rescue and find out that Preston is really a …
The film industry was pretty impressed too, with Wallace and Gromit films winning three Oscars® to date!On the back of his Oscar® win for A Close Shave, interest in the man behind the Wallace and Gromit films really started to pick up, with Nick featuring in the Sunday broadsheets and tabloids. Like The Wrong Trousers, it won the Academy Award … He then went on to study at After visiting Bristol for two summers to help Aardman Animations with their work for BBC, Nick moved to Bristol and joined the company full time in 1985. Preston is a non-speaking character in Wallace and Gromit and the main antagonist of A Close Shave. Gromit’s intellectual, cultured character is perhaps a little inspired by the character Snowy from Tintin - Hergé's classic cartoon creation was a favourite of Nick’s when he was growing up.With the release of subsequent Wallace and Gromit films, the public quickly took Nick Park’s creations to their hearts. After discovering Wallace's knitting machine, he decided to steal the blueprints so he can make his own version for shearing sheep. Wallace and Gromit, who have been spying on the scene, give chase on their motorcycle. Wallace and Gromit have to decide where to go for their annual picnic. Gromit, meanwhile, got his name after Nick heard his brother, an electrician, talking about ‘grommets’ – rings, or washers, used in the trade. Nick teamed up with writers Steve Box and Bob Baker for the film which took five years to complete. For many, Wallace and Gromit is a beloved film series. The visual look of Wallace was inspired by a postman Nick knew called Jerry; he was later renamed after a Labrador Nick encountered on a bus in Preston. Preston was built to be a friendly and helpful aid, but unfortunately, the end product was anything but. In A Close Shave, Preston, a robotic dog designed to shear sheep, begins turning them into dog food instead. As you can see, he can keep a very busy schedule in the studio!Because Aardman is a busy studio that is often working on confidential projects, we’re not able to open it up to the public. He is instead a pitiless thug and criminal, obsessed with wealth. He'd also be willing to brutally mince up sheep or humans to make more valuable dog food. Shaun is last seen helping himself to Wallace's cheese, much to Wallace's dismay. Gromit is on the trail, but before he can alert the love-struck Wallace to these dastardly plans he is framed by Preston and receives a life sentence for sheep abductions. Academy Award winning eccentric inventor Wallace, and his faithful, four-legged friend Gromit have specially re-mastered all four of their smashing half hour specials. He had a huge, diabolical machine that would grind the live sheep to meat and dispense them into cans. He’s always involved in the development of new ideas – he could be working on story and models, or collaborating with story artists and editors, or a combination of all these things! 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). This quiz talks about the most popular claymation characters, Wallace and Gromit, and their creators at Aardman Animation. Average score for this quiz is 10 / 15.Difficulty: Average.Played 1,191 times. A portrait of him with his inventor indicates that perhaps at one time, Preston was the faithful companion he was designed as before his more sinister programming came to be. After his destruction at the hands of Shaun however, he has been rendered totally harmless by Wallace and now acts as the more faithful pet he was originally programmed to be. Preston later made a scheme to steal sheep and turn them into his own brand of dog food.