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| Angry Kid | |
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_logo.jpg){kind=logo} Logo from the first and second series. The logo is green in the third and fourth series. | |
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| Created by | Darren Walsh |
| Written by | Darren Walsh Mike Booth Mike Cooper |
| Directed by | Darren Walsh |
| Starring | Darren Walsh David Holt Mike Cooper Beth Chalmers Kevin Eldon Jo Allen |
| Theme music composer | Will Hodge |
| Opening theme | "Angry Kid" |
| Ending theme | "Angry Kid" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 66 |
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| Cinematography | Mark Chamberlain |
| Running time | 1-22 minutes |
| Production companies | Aardman Animations Mr Morris Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 (1998–2002) BBC Three (2003–2006) Atom.com (1999–2012) YouTube (2007–2019) |
| Release | 5 December 1998 [1] – 8 November 2019 |
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Angry Kid is a British animated comedy television and web series created, directed, written, and designed by Darren Walsh and produced by Aardman Animations for Series 1 and 2 and by Mr Morris Productions for Series 3 and 4.
Unlike most Aardman productions, Angry Kid was not created using clay animation but a combination of pixilation (using actors in a form of stop motion puppetry) with masks for facial expressions.[2] Series 3 onwards uses CGI for Angry Kid's head, along with live action. The series also aired in the United States on MTV.
Series 1 and 2 have been released on DVD by Pathé and 2Entertain respectively. All the Angry Kid animations from before the third series were on Atom.com before the site was absorbed into Comedy Central. A compilation DVD called Aardman's Dark Side was also released, and it contains several Series 2 episodes and an exclusive episode. The vast majority of Angry Kid has since been released on YouTube.
After an 8-year hiatus, Series 3 was launched on 3 July 2015 with the episode 'Interview'. Series 4 launched 4 years later in September 2019.
Unlike the first two series, Series 3 and 4 were exclusively released on the official Angry Kid YouTube page, with new episodes appearing every three weeks.
The fourth series concluded on 8 November 2019, and, as of September 2024, no further posts have been made to the Angry Kid page.
- ^ "Aardnews (1999)". www.aardman.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 1999. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "Aardman - Angry Kid". Retrieved 13 March 2012.