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Stuart · 04-07-2014, 13:10

My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).

My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.

Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4 My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show). My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned. Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too. Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.