But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.