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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Eddy Frankel

Larger Than Life review – Wallace, Gromit and the gang say cheeeese for hilarious Aardman origin story

Gromit peers from a van window at the Aardman immersive show, surrounded by sketches and illustrations
‘At this huge scale you see every lump and bump in the clay’ … visitors look up at the projections at Larger Than Life at Lightroom in London. Photograph: Justin Sutcliffe/LIghtroom KX

Nothing is safe from the scourge of immersification. They’ve turned Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van Gogh into vast, projection-mapped digital environments; they’ve told the stories of the moon landings and the dinosaurs and David Bowie as floor-to-ceiling electronic spectacles; and now they’ve come for Aardman. For Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, our national treasures. Is nothing sacred?

The latest immersive cinematic experience at Lightroom is a big, eye-popping celebration of Aardman Animations, the company behind the world’s favourite claymation films and TV shows. It moves between documentary storytelling, behind-the-scenes insight and dazzling immersive renderings of all your wide-grinned, cheeky northern favourites.

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