Aardman Talks Slate Including Mossy Bottom

Key Points:

• Aardman co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, along with director Nick Park and Executive Creative Director Sarah Cox, held a masterclass at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival celebrating the studio’s 50th anniversary and discussing its past, present, and future projects.
• Sarah Cox announced the BBC-commissioned stop-motion and 2D animated series "Let’s Go Timmy!" featuring Bitzer the sheepdog escorting Timmy and friends to school, and confirmed the global cinematic release of "Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom" in mid-September.
• The studio is developing "The Almost (Untold) Story Of Danger Delilah," based on Oliver Jeffers’ "Once Upon an Alphabet," with a new story and script by Peter Lord about a girl rewriting her own narrative.
• Aardman is collaborating with The Pokémon Company International on "Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu," a comedy adventure set in the Galar region, told from the Pokémon’s perspective through Aardman’s unique animation style.
• Lord and Sproxton shared their early history, including the origin of Aardman’s name, their breakthrough with the character Morph, and their collaboration with Nick Park on Wallace & Gromit, highlighting Channel 4’s role in supporting UK animation beyond children’s programming.