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This New Pokemon Show Takes Two Years To Create One Episode
In 2024, The Pokemon Company announced that it would be working with Aardman Animations, the legendary stop-motion team behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, for a future project.
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In 2024, The Pokémon Company announced a partnership with Aardman Animations to create a new stop‑motion series. The project, titled *Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu*, was revealed in 2025 and follows the knight Sirfetch’d and his squire Pichu as they travel through the Galar region from Pokémon Sword and Shield. At Pokémon XP in San Francisco, director Tom Parkinson, creative director Natalie McKay, and creative lead James Young discussed the show’s production and showed a teaser. Aardman plans to feature mainly Galar‑region Pokémon, with Obstagoon highlighted as the largest puppet, about twice the size of Sirfetch’d.
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