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Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator

Have a cracking time creating your own animations, adding sound effects and dialogue, and finally saving them as screensavers. Choose some dialogue then try to synchronise the expressions of Wallace and…

27 February 1998

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator is a point-and-click, released 27 February 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator is

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator was released in 1998. It was published by BBC Multimedia. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Have a cracking time creating your own animations, adding sound effects and dialogue, and finally saving them as screensavers. Choose some dialogue then try to synchronise the expressions of Wallace and Gromit. You use the mouse to move their eyes, mouths, ears - well everything really while the sound is running. You can choose your set, props, music and characters. Make the characters walk on and say their piece, well not in Gromit's case, of course, and then walk off again. Decide whether you want to make one of your own animations into your current screensaver, or choose one of the three pre-made screensaver games.
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How it plays

Its themes are comedy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Wallace & Gromit series

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator is the first of 11 entries we hold in the Wallace & Gromit series. The next entry was Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo in 2003.

See all 11 Wallace & Gromit games in release order →

What it launched against

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator launched on 27 February 1998, within three weeks of Xenogears, 1080° Snowboarding and Battlezone.

Released around the same time: Xenogears, 1080° Snowboarding, Battlezone.

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Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Animator was released on 27 February 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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