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We just lost a legendary animator today 😔 Some animators bring characters to life. Loyd Price helped shape entire worlds that generations grew up loving. 🕊️ Aardman animations has announced the passing of Loyd Price, a gifted animator, mentor and longtime creative force who dedicated more than 30 years to the studio. Over the decades, Price rose to become Aardman’s Head of Animation, helping guide both the performances audiences saw on screen and the generations of animators who followed him. His career stretched across some of stop-motion animation’s most beloved films, including: - Chicken Run — Supervising animator - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Supervising animator - The Nightmare Before Christmas — Animator - Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave — Animator - Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions — Co-director and writer - Shaun the Sheep Movie — Animation supervisor - A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Animation supervisor - The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Animation supervisor - Early Man — Animation supervisor - Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death — Animator - Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Animation supervisor On The Curse of the Were-Rabbit alone, Price led a team of 30 animators, helping bring Wallace, Gromit and an entire cast of characters to life frame by painstaking frame. His work as supervising animator also helped shape Chicken Run, while his career connected Aardman’s classic shorts to its modern feature-film era. Stop-motion is built one tiny movement at a time. Loyd Price spent decades making those movements feel alive, and teaching others how to do the same. The characters will keep moving. His influence will keep moving with them. Rest in paradise, Loyd Price. 🤍

Optimus Prime and Megatron Voice Legend David Kaye Celebrates 62! 🎙️🎉 Kaye’s career is packed with voices that defined entire franchises, from Sesshomaru in InuYasha to Megatron across Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. He later made Transformers history again as Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, becoming the only actor to voice both Megatron and Optimus Prime in major animated Transformers series. Some of his most notable voice roles include: • Sesshomaru (InuYasha / Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon) • Megatron / Galvatron (Beast Wars / Beast Machines / Transformers: Armada / Energon / Cybertron) • Optimus Prime (Transformers: Animated) • Clank (Ratchet & Clank) • Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men: Evolution) • Treize Khushrenada (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) • Recoome (Dragon Ball Z — Ocean Dub) • Grandpa Max Tennyson (Ben 10) • Khyber (Ben 10: Omniverse) • Soun Tendo (Ranma ½) • ProtoMan.EXE (MegaMan NT Warrior) • Vandal Savage (Young Justice) • Apocalypse (X-Men: Evolution) • Cringer / Battle Cat (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) • Ford Cruller (Psychonauts) • Vision (Avengers Assemble) • Mysterio (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions) • Cronus (Class of the Titans) • Duckworth (DuckTales) • Nathan Hale (Resistance) Few voice actors have a résumé that stretches so naturally across anime, superhero animation, gaming, and some of the biggest cartoon franchises of the last three decades. At 62, David Kaye’s unmistakable voice remains tied to everything from towering Transformers villains to Sesshomaru, Clank, and countless fan favorites. 🎂🎙️✨