Wat's Pig

Wat's Pig is a 1996 short film created by Aardman Animations. The film is shot in split screen.^[1]

Production

The sets were done by Cod Steaks.^[2]

Wat's Pig was Aardman's sixth Oscar nomination, and Lord's second Oscar nomination as a director^[3][4]

Peter Lord said: "I don't expect, Wat's Pig to make it's money back, or Stage Fright to make it's money back, but we have that luxury. We can do that here, because we get money from the commercials and the merchandising malarkey."^[3]

He explained some of the production process:

As a concept, it was in there right from the start. I think it is interesting as a way with story telling, not just as a technical exercise. I think about Paul Driessen's film, The End of the World in Four Seasons, a similar storytelling approach. There was a time when I thought of doing more of the film in split-screen, not the whole film, but more with split-screen, but that [idea] slowly eroded as I worked on the storyboards. I felt it would become too "tricksy." It was, in a way, an intellectual challenge, but technically, we went about it in the most quaint, old-fashioned way imaginable, with film opticals at the end. Exactly why we didn't composite it electronically, I'm not quite sure. I wish we had, it would have been a lot easier!. It's funny, the way we work, it's like we were in a time warp, really. It's like making a film 20 years ago or something. We didn't assemble two halves of the image until the end, so I didn't really know how things would work out accurately until the end.^[3]

Plot

Imdb explains the plot: "Two princes are separated at birth and reunited only after a crisis grips the country. "^[5]

Cast

Critical reception

Wat's Pig received a rating of 6.9/10 from 383 users on imdb.^[5]

DVD Review describes Wat's Pig as "Scripted, widescreen, more ordinary, and better [than War Story]".^[6]

Awards and nominations

References