Mrs Tweedy s dress was wired stiff to allow it to be animated, and took one person three weeks to complete. Suffice to say, the name was shortened upon legal advice. Chickens have hollow bones, and are able to breath through them. There are 24 individual poses per second of film in Chicken Run. The team managed to get 100 seconds of film in the can each week.
Boy chickens have their testes inside their body cavity.
When Aardman was signed to produce Chicken Run for Dreamworks, the Park and Lord insisted the company wouldn t compromise its trademark Britishness. By way of a compromise, Mel Gibson was cast as the anti-hero Rocky. Gibson, a big fan of Wallace And Gromit, was more than happy to sign. However, he was busy filming The Patriot at the time the production required him, so he recorded many of his lines via digital phone lines. The actors were required to record their lines in up to 40 different ways, and the animators would later choose the line which best matched the animation.