There's no way around it.”Ĭheck out the trailer and a special behind-the-scenes featurette: “I love films that you can only do in animation, and to bring these two particular characters to life, you have to use animation. “I've always loved The Snail and the Whale,” says Lang, who with Magic Light Pictures chose Triggerfish Animation Studios in Cape Town, South Africa to produce the film’s claymation, CG, and VFX. But now 10 years later, Lang, co-directing again with Daniel Snaddon, has once again created an animated masterpiece with a Donaldson story their new 25-minute, award-winning, stop-motion / CG short, The Snail and the Whale, should contend for an Oscar as well. Two-time Oscar-nominated director Max Lang had wanted to develop Donaldson’s aesthetically charged pages and adventure-driven plot in animation since adapting the author’s 1999 book The Gruffalo in 2009 with Magic Light Pictures that project, a CG TV special, went on to earn Oscar and BAFTA nominations. With travel being so limited these days, one of the greatest gifts animation offers viewers is a window into worlds unreachable, such as the tours of “shimmering ice caps, coral caves, and enormous waves” rhythmically described in Julia Donaldson’s 2003 children’s book, The Snail and the Whale.
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