Miles Bullough of Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations on the pressure to move jobs abroad
Shaun the Sheep is at the meeting too. I walk into the office of Miles Bullough, head of broadcast at Aardman Animations, and find him sitting opposite a four-foot model of the ovine superstar. I’m offered a seat, and an assistant comes in with refreshments. Tea for me, coffee for Bullough. Nothing for Shaun, whose sombre and kindly face is poised inquisitively over my tape-recorder.
‘Shaun was the star of A Close Shave,’ Bullough tells me, ‘which was Nick Park’s third film. [It was also the third film to feature perhaps Aardman’s most famous characters, Wallace and Gromit.] That was a breakthrough moment for Aardman as a studio. It was the beginning of our huge merchandising and licensing business.’ He and his company are rightly proud of the woolly hero, whose image is on display throughout their vast, swish, open-plan headquarters in Bristol.
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