A new “Shot on iPhone” stop-motion holiday animation starring popular animated characters Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London’s Battersea Power Station this holiday season. The six-minute “Shot on iPhone” video will be shown every day from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. from today until New Year’s Eve.
Battersea Power Station has been home to Apple’s U.K. headquarters since last year, and the company also has a store there.
The animation is part of Apple’s latest “Shot on iPhone” campaign. The video, filmed by Aardman, the animation studio that created Wallace & Gromit, was filmed in stop-motion, using the Telephoto camera on eight iPhone 16 Pro Max devices.
From 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. today, and every day until New Year’s Eve, a pair of Christmas trees will light up the two wash towers on the landmark’s river-facing façade. Visitors will see the two characters decorate the giant trees in their own inimitable styles, despite the intervention of the mischievous Feathers McGraw. Aardman follows in the footsteps of David Hockney, who last year created Bigger Christmas Trees, drawn on iPad Pro.
“Aardman used the Dragonframe Tether app and eight iPhone 16 Pro devices in Telephoto mode to make Wallace & Gromit, Shot on iPhone,” said Apple. “They shot full 4K stills in ProRAW format, before stitching them together to achieve the 6K image needed to turn their 23‑centimeter characters into 101‑meter projections.”
Visitors can watch Wallace & Gromit decorate the trees, and then “snap a selfie” in front of the fully-decorated trees. In front of the store, the Wallace & Gromit set used to create the stop-motion will be on display.
“This project has been a dream to direct — a cinematic fusion of tech and art,” said Aardman’s director and graphic design lead Gavin Strange. “Shooting stop-motion animation on iPhone 16 Pro Max with the legendary Wallace & Gromit, to then be projected onto the iconic Battersea Power Station, makes this unique in so many ways. I hope that this Christmas, everyone feels inspired to start shooting their own stop-motion masterpieces with iPhone, and I’m excited and proud of what we’ve all created.”
Fir more details about this “Shot on iPhone” campaign, including an upcoming “Today at Apple” session with Aardman, visit the Apple website.
