Inside the Making of ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’: How Aardman Battled Fire, Flooding and a Potential Clay Drought to Make the Stop Motion Sequel

The chickens in “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” are sweet. Not just to look at, with their wide eyes and goofy grins, but literally: if you licked the palm-sized clay and silicone bird models they’d taste like sugar. Which makes sense, because they’re coated in it. The puppet makers at Aardman Animations, the stop […]
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