Win this lovely coffee table book about the Early Man cartoonists

If you loved Wallace and Gromit or Shaun the Sheep then you’ll enjoy the upcoming movie which opens on Friday: Early Man.

Early Man is a prehistoric comedy adventure about a group of people from the Stone Age, led by Dug, who have to fight for their land through a football match against another group of people representing the Bronze Age.

You have to take your hat off to the creators of this film. It apparently took eight years to make.

“If we get three seconds (filmed) at the end of a day, and if it’s good, that’s very satisfying. And if we’re creating more than a minute a week? Well, in animation terms, that’s rocking.” So says director Nick Park, who is also a four time Academy Award winner. He also played the voice of Dug’s pet pig sidekick, Hognog.

Check out these amazing statistics:

Around 150 people have been directly involved with the production, and at its peak 33 animators were working on the film.

Early Man has required 273 puppets, made by 23 different modelmakers over a 30-month period. Every individual puppet was created over a period of more than 10 weeks, with the model making team completing a total of 18 Dug puppets, and eight of each member of the Stone Age tribe. An astonishing total of 3,000 interchangeable mouths were crafted for the film’s characters by hand.

Check out MomAgain@40’s post: she has some worksheets you can download to keep the kids busy.

Here’s a video about the film:

SA Mom blogs is giving away a coffee table book called “The Art of Aardman”. If you’d like to win, all you have to do is leave a comment below.

Here’s a video with a bit more info on the book:

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1. This competition will run for a week. The winner will be announced on the Facebook page, and emailed.
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3. The prize is not transferable.
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