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Director's Statement
FUN FACTS
There were a total of 563 puppets made, of which 208 were "A" scale chickens, 79 "B" scale chickens, 48 peddling chickens plus 38 other characters and the rest solid characters.
Bunty's backside is composed of a staggering 3,077 feathers or "fluffles". It takes one person a whole day to hand-paint in the tips.
The CHICKEN RUN models are made from a special blend of plasticine called the "Aardman Mix" which is slightly more durable than ordinary plasticine.
3,500kg of plasticine were used in the production of CHICKEN RUN. A total of 60 different colours have been used. Each character's colour is individually blended and mixed in a converted chewing gum machine housed in the Aardmans tudios.
Each character gets through an estounding number of replacement body parts during the production of a full-length feature. These include:
- At least one pair of wings per day
- The skin is generally mended rather than replaced
- lead characters' skins last about six months before replacement, whereas background characters have only been re-skinned once
- 1,000 pairs of eyes have been made for the characters, and each character's eye colour is unique.
Bab's knitting is real and was knitted with needles measuring between 16 and 18cm long. Some of the smaller, trickier parts were even finished off using cocktail sticks!
Mr Tweedy's cardigan was knitted by hand and it took two modelmakers three weeks in total to complete (two weeks to knit and one week to assemble).