The animators at Aardman have revived their classic Creature Comforts format for a new BBC promotion. 

Bristol based animation house Aardman has created six new films for the BBC’s ‘Things We Love’ campaign.

In the series of heart-warming animated films, in the style of their classic Creature Comforts shorts, real BBC audience member’s voices and unscripted conversations are matched with stop-motion clay animal characters.

The dialogue in the films is the audience members’ own descriptions of things they love on the BBC.

The first three 30 second films are:

Hamsters – A family of Casualty, News and Sport mad hamsters from Port Talbot in Wales

Foxes – A family of foxes from Birmingham who can’t get enough MasterChef

Dogs – A father and son canine duo from Paisley who want to Race Across The World together

Rich Webber directs all three films, which will appear across the BBC throughout 2024. The films will also run in cinema, on YouTube and across social media, with three more due later this Spring.

Sarah Cox, Chief Creative Director, Aardman said:

“Aardman is very proud of our long-standing relationship with the BBC, so, we were delighted to revive our much-loved Creature Comforts’ format for its Things We Love campaign. The magic and joy of this type of animation is that all the dialogue is unscripted and selected from real conversations with members of the public from across the UK – and that’s where so much of the warmth and the humour and the storytelling comes from. The interviews inspire the Claymation animal character scenarios. We hope that viewers love these new creatures as much as we do.”

You can find all three films on BBC iPlayer. Additionally, The One Show recently went behind the scenes at Aardman too.