Crossingham, meanwhile, spent his teen years performing as an acrobat, training with the Moscow State Circus. Joining Aardman as a runner in 1994, his first project was the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave. And he's now creative director of the Wallace & Gromit brand.

The ‘no clomping’ sign was very important,” says Dave Alex Riddett, Wallace & Gromit’s director of photography since A Grand Day Out sent them to the moon in 1989. “If you put your foot in the wrong place,

A British Christmas tradition returns in Aardman’s Wallace and Gromit, the animated duo that have warmed our hearts since their first appearance 35 years ago. There’s been little from the witless inventor and his canine chum ever since 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death,