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The gruffalo the snail and the whale6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But now 10 years later, Lang, co-directing again with Daniel Snaddon, has once again created an animated masterpiece with a Donaldson story their new 25-minute, award-winning, stop-motion / CG short, The Snail and the Whale, should contend for an Oscar as well. ![]() Two-time Oscar-nominated director Max Lang had wanted to develop Donaldson’s aesthetically charged pages and adventure-driven plot in animation since adapting the author’s 1999 book The Gruffalo in 2009 with Magic Light Pictures that project, a CG TV special, went on to earn Oscar and BAFTA nominations. With travel being so limited these days, one of the greatest gifts animation offers viewers is a window into worlds unreachable, such as the tours of “shimmering ice caps, coral caves, and enormous waves” rhythmically described in Julia Donaldson’s 2003 children’s book, The Snail and the Whale. ![]()
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