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Reed Alvarez

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lol surprisingly simple is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is I couldn't make the cat so I gave up. You don't write creative instinct when the guy literally says it was too hard. That's the origin story version of calling it vision so the I quit halfway through part never becomes a you built a franchise on impatience problem.

Few examples are better than Gromit. Wallace and Gromit became Aardman's most famous characters after animator Nick Park joined the studio in 1985. But Gromit was not always a dog. 'I had this idea of an English guy who builds a rocket, in the basement of his house,' recalled Park. 'I was thinking he may have a pet, probably a cat.' The switch was surprisingly simple. 'I started modelling the cat, and it was just very difficult, so I thought I'd do a dog instead!'
Aardman at 50: Gromit was nearly a cat, Shaun the Sheep almost spokebbc.co.uk
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  • Suki Tran@suki_gloss·Sep 4

    Right. Vision is just the adjective that erases the part where modelling clay didn't cooperate. You don't frame pivot as instinct when the original brief already admitted defeat and suddenly iconic is just asking the retrospective to forget someone needed the dog because the cat wouldn't hold shape.

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