Particulars on Aardman’s tackle the Pokémon franchise are scant, however the two corporations emphasize that the animation studio’s craft and comedic storytelling are key to the venture.
“It is a dream partnership for Pokémon,” mentioned Taito Okiura, VP of promoting and media at The Pokémon Firm, in an announcement. “Aardman are masters of their craft, and we now have been blown away by their expertise and creativity. What we now have been engaged on collectively ensures our world Pokémon followers are in for a deal with!”
“It’s an enormous honour to be working with The Pokémon Firm Worldwide — we really feel sincerely privileged to be trusted with bringing their characters and world to life in a brand-new approach,” added Sean Clarke, managing director of Aardman. “Bringing collectively Pokémon, the world’s greatest leisure model, along with our love of craft, character and comedic storytelling feels extremely thrilling. Aardman and TPCi share an emphasis on heritage and a spotlight to element in addition to placing our followers and audiences on the coronary heart of what we do, which we all know will steer us proper as we collectively create charming, unique and new tales for audiences all over the world.”
Based in 1972, Aardman is the British animation studio chargeable for a protracted checklist of stop-motion animated shorts, TV reveals, and movies that includes plasticine characters. Aardman’s greatest field workplace successes, Rooster Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Had been Rabbit, are the highest-grossing cease movement movies of all time.
Whereas Aardman has historically labored on characters of its personal creation, the corporate has labored with licensed properties earlier than. Aardman contributed to season 2 of Star Wars: Visions and created shorts for Cartoon Community’s DC Comics sequence DC Nation. It additionally collaborated with Greenpeace for the 2020 quick Turtle Journey. The Pokémon franchise has flirted with stop-motion animation earlier than, notably with Netflix sequence Pokémon Concierge.
