We just lost a legendary animator today 😔
Some animators bring characters to life. Loyd Price helped shape entire worlds that generations grew up loving. 🕊️
Aardman animations has announced the passing of Loyd Price, a gifted animator, mentor and longtime creative force who dedicated more than 30 years to the studio. Over the decades, Price rose to become Aardman’s Head of Animation, helping guide both the performances audiences saw on screen and the generations of animators who followed him.
His career stretched across some of stop-motion animation’s most beloved films, including:
- Chicken Run — Supervising animator
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Supervising animator
- The Nightmare Before Christmas — Animator
- Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave — Animator
- Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions — Co-director and writer
- Shaun the Sheep Movie — Animation supervisor
- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Animation supervisor
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Animation supervisor
- Early Man — Animation supervisor
- Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death — Animator
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Animation supervisor
On The Curse of the Were-Rabbit alone, Price led a team of 30 animators, helping bring Wallace, Gromit and an entire cast of characters to life frame by painstaking frame.
His work as supervising animator also helped shape Chicken Run, while his career connected Aardman’s classic shorts to its modern feature-film era.
Stop-motion is built one tiny movement at a time. Loyd Price spent decades making those movements feel alive, and teaching others how to do the same.
The characters will keep moving. His influence will keep moving with them.
Rest in paradise, Loyd Price. 🤍
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A film adaptation of a psychological horror game that follows a stranded spaceship crew descending into madness.
(Source: @DanielRPK)
I remember having an account from like ten years ago, but now I can’t find it.
It probably had my earliest drawings.
Maybe I’m misremembering—but I know I had it.
It’s been so long I probably can’t even find the phone I registered with.
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Some people use “AI is fine” to shout down anyone who dislikes AI. But almost all AI today is a product and a means of production inside a market economy.
You can’t force someone to accept something they originally dislike. That kind of change has to come from the individual’s own choice, not from outside interference.