Exclusive: head of Aardman studio blames Brexit as UK falls behind on skills and tax relief
A Tiger Morph sculpture. Sean Clarke says other countries offer up to double the UK’s animation tax relief.A Tiger Morph sculpture. Sean Clarke says other countries offer up to double the UK’s animation tax relief.The head of Aardman, the Oscar-winning British studio behindand Shaun the Sheep, has warned that the nation’s animation productions for children’s television will have to be made overseas because acute challenges are taking their toll on the UK sector.
“Children’s television is suffering and what’s produced in this country will go off the edge of a cliff in the next couple of years, unless something is done,” he said. “The ideas will still be conceived here, but they’ll be made elsewhere.” Clarke said: “I have the Spanish calling me all the time, saying: ‘Why don’t you come to the Canaries, where it’s up to 50%?’ We have to consider it.”Aardman could not have made its television classics if it had faced today’s acute challenges, he said: “We created Shaun the Sheep 15 years ago and made 150 episodes. The landscape is now very different and if Aardman were starting today, it would be incredibly hard to produce Shaun the Sheep in this country.
“We’ve had to set up our own academy over the last 10 years to train people because graduates from colleges and universities are not production-ready.”
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