2012 was the release of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists ( known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits ), Aardman's first 3-D stop-motion film and Peter Lord's first film as a director since Chicken Run. The first film, Aardman's first 3-D f eature film, a computer-animated Arthur Christmas, was released in 2011. Aardman co-founder Peter Lord remarked "We are all very excited by the potential and have a number of projects we are keen to bring to fruition with this new relationship." In 2008 however, before the first film with Sony, Aardman released a new Wallace and Gromit film, called A Matter of Loaf and Death. In April 2007 Aardman signed a nd in 2010 renewed, a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to finance, co-produce and distribute feature films. The style was later used again in the video for another successful single from the album So, Big Time. This section was animated by Nick Park of Aardman Animations who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time. Notably, two oven-ready chickens, headless and featherless, were animated using stop-motion and shown dancing along to the synthesised flute solo in the middle of the song. Also included were six women who posed as the back-up singers of the song. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them: Gabriel's daughters Anna and Melanie, the animators themselves, and director Stephen Johnson's girlfriend. Aardman Animations (of Wallace and Gromit fame) and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. Sledgehammer spawned a widely popular and influential music video commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R.
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