When creating Creature Comforts Ardman set out to make a realistic documentary about the British public but put a twist on it in their own humorous way. They did this by using Claymation puppets of the entire animal kingdom they used stop motion animation in order to animate them and make them as realistic as possible. Ardman went around the nation asking the British public everyday questions and their over all view on society and themselves. This was an interesting concept since using everyones love of animals and putting their own comical spin on it was very effective. Arman managed to use a range of different voices in order to express the animals feelings and emotions using plasticine they also added ironic situations for the characters, for example a gorilla in a zoo talking about "Getting out and about". They also took extra care and detail when creating specific parts of the animals bodies. To do this the animators used frame by frame shots in order to make the characters move. They created over one hundred and fifty claymation models for the show. They also had a range of set designs that were relevant to the situations. Andy Mcormac, the lead set designer, makes sure that all the sets are the right scale for the shoots.
Richard 'Gollie' who is the director of Creature Comforts also worked on a series called 'Rex the Runt' as wel as working on other projects such as 'Wallace and Gromit' and 'Chicken Run'. In order to create a wider range of emotions for the creators Nick Upton deconstructed all the sound phonetically so that the animators could shape the models mouths to match with the persons voice. Kitty Clay was responsible for all the art direction, which consisted of moving all the characters body parts and also creating detailed character models using plasticine.
Michael Sydner was the character designer for the project. His job was to make all the models as realistic as possible as well as researching into how the animals reacted in different situations and over all the different animal characteristics in order to create more humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hskFu3ZmNQs
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