Aardman and Isobel join forces to recreate Birmingham in lovely animation

Date
28 August 2012

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Having rehabilitated the reputations of single men whose best friends are dogs (Wallace & Gromit) and pirates (Pirates), top animation studio Aardman have turned their talents to Britain’s most unfairly maligned city.

They joined forces with Isobel to create a new campaign for Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre, creating a four-tier revolving model incorporating quirky interpretations of Brummie landmarks alongside domestic objects. Director Daniel Cohen said: "I always like making worlds and try to imagine where I would want to live in that place. I kind of just think like a child, that’s what I really feel lucky to be able to do – then there’s no right or wrong.”

As you’d expect the animation and model-making is first class contributing to a really fun campaign.

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Aardman/Isobel: Bullring Birmingham We Are So City (still)

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Aardman/Isobel: Bullring Birmingham We Are So City (still)

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Aardman/Isobel: Bullring Birmingham We Are So City (still)

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Aardman/Isobel: Bullring Birmingham We Are So City (still)

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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