mostly during the first three films. Sitting a reasonable distance away, though, I didn't notice this crew. A wealth of information about the design of the show and how difficult it is to do claymation is presented. Each of

tad dimmer. It's also slightly more grainy. Still the fine detail is immediately noticeable in the first episode.

feature lots of activity in the rear channels—thunder ripples and rolls, out-of-frame voices call out, but the colors are vibrant and the detail is even finer. Every thread and stitch is noticeable in the fabrics that

and his smart, newspaper reading dog, Gromit. Wallace is always cooking up a new invention that inevitably gets them watching animators play with the sculptures moving them ever so slightly into another position. This documentary that thing that they meet on the moon?), it's fun nonetheless. "The Wrong Trousers," arguably the most famous of allthis shorter featurette covers some of the animators secrets of achieving certain effects within the film.

episodes "A Grand Day Out," and "The Wrong Trousers," are presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. "A Close Shave" is with a delicious spread of short-shorts, "making of" featurettes, and insightful audio commentaries. CGI has a firm strangle hold on the majority of animated features we see today, so it's easy to forget those The four episodes offered here are "A Grand Day Out," "The Wrong Trousers," "A Close Shave," and "A Matter ofexplain the rift between Gromit and the new penguin that's just moved into rent the spare ( his!) bedroom. The episode builds This standard definition, user-controlled gallery contains eighteen production stills and blueprints ball of Play-Dough that continually changed shapes. Nowadays, I must credit 'Wallace and Gromit' for fueling my passion for episode has little in the way of dialogue since Wallace is asleep for most of it. Yet no words are needed to the films—you'll definitely notice a shimmering moiré effect on certain fine textures, like the cloth

There was some speculation about the audio mixes in this collection, but rest assured, each film has detailed and clear. Finally, if you don't have a surround set-up, the LPCM 2.0 mix for each film isEach of the four episodes is given the 1080p/AVC encode treatment. With each of them presented in their original score. Some of the sound effects are a little dodgy, but that's all part of the charm. The later films Wrong Trousers" episode when the toast flips up in the air and the jam is squirted onto it. Fascinating stuff. becoming a lost art. 'Wallace and Gromit' offers some of the most famous claymation to date. It's good to see it Wallace & Gromit start a bread- baking business and are ensnared in a murder mystery that becomes... "A Matter Of Loaf And Death!"