A grand day out: Wallace and Gromit star in London exhibition

Curators of the exhibition at the Young V&A want to ‘demystify’ the process of creating characters such as Wallace and Gromit. Photograph: David Parry/V&A

Aardman studios is known around the world for its seamlessly animated stop-motion train chases, hacked “smart gnomes”, tea-consuming heroes and villainous penguins.

Now fans will get a behind-the-scenes look at the studio’s best-known projects and see how they went from rough ideas sketched out on a kitchen table to Oscar-winning films in a major exhibition at the Young V&A in east London.