Peter Lord is drawing from Aardman’s tradition

Aardman’s co-founder tells Alan O’Riordan about Shaun the Sheep’s leap to the big screen.

THE perils of taking a well-loved cartoon series and turning it into a feature film are many. Think of the disastrous Postman Pat film, or the shambles Bill Murray couldn’t save that was Garfield.

But with the Shaun the Sheep: The Movie, animation studio Aardman has got it just about perfect. They have stayed true to the original, while giving Shaun’s mischievous independent streak a bigger canvas by moving the action to the city.