{"id":3865,"date":"2026-01-12T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:16:36","slug":"evolution-of-wallace-gromit-shaun-the-sheep-35-years-explained-cartoon-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Of WALLACE &amp; GROMIT (&amp; SHAUN THE SHEEP) &#8211; 35 Years Explained | CARTOON EVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkoUmqN0c8U?controls=0&#038;si=Kw6zaOxJ5oGliwrd\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Debuting in 1989 short film A Grand Day Out, Wallace and Gromit \u2013 the blundering, eccentric inventor and his clever, mystery-solving dog \u2013 instantly became icons of stop-motion claymation; in less than a decade cementing themselves as true British legends, beloved globally. To celebrate 35 years of Aardman\u2019s famous duo, I\u2019ll trace their entire Evolution from 1976 to now, covering their history and inception and many appearances and changes over the years (plus their spin-off successes including Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time!)<\/p>\n<cite>Dave Lee Down Under &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GkoUmqN0c8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GkoUmqN0c8U<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debuting in 1989 short film A Grand Day Out, Wallace and Gromit \u2013 the blundering, eccentric inventor and his clever, mystery-solving dog \u2013 instantly became icons of stop-motion claymation; in less than a decade cementing themselves as true British legends, beloved globally. To celebrate 35 years of Aardman\u2019s famous duo, I\u2019ll trace their entire Evolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3869,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}