What was morph on

Morph has always been hand-made out of one lump of clay. To check they always used the same amount of clay, Peter and David would weigh the clay on these old scales that they found in a junk shop in Bristol.

When Peter and David first started making Morph films for Take Hart, the production team only allocated a short amount of time for the sequences. So Peter and David would have to tell a story in under one minute — not a bad target for anyone setting out in animation.

Morph later appeared in another children's art program, SMart, New,online, episodes arrived on July 4th, The Morph website is a new move by Aardman, when viewing the website you can scroll across the page instead of down. The website includes news, Videos, Products, Pictures, wallpapers and Avatars. Morph appeared mainly in one minute "shorts" interspersed throughout the show. These were connected to the main show by having Hart deliver a line or two to Morph who would reply in gobbledygook but with meaningful gestures.

Later on, Morph was joined by cream-coloured Chas, who was much more badly behaved. Morph can change shape, he would become spheres in order to move around, or extrude into cylinders to pass to different levels.

He can also mimic other objects, or creatures. Morph was straight out of the box: plasticine body, simple black-and-white eyes — nothing else. If he had to fly, we used nylon fishing line stuck into his back and painted the same colour as the background.

Morph certainly had a Chaplin kind of mischief. But he always bounced back — literally. Interviews by Andrew Dickson. The indestructible Morph. Photograph: CBBC. Peter Lord, animator.