Who is the UK's best animated character of all time?

Paddington Bear has been elected to be the best animated character of all time in UK movie history.

Paddinton Bear

The cute bear was created by former BBC cameraman Michael Bond firstly for children books, and has now been announced to be the best animated character at the ninth British Animation Awards ceremony which took place in London.

The very first tale with Paddington was released in 1958 and until now the children books have been translated into 40 different languages and over 35 million copies have been sold all over the world. Only in 1978 it was, when the animated series of Paddintons adventures were first shown on TV.

And now in 2012 the cuddly bear  beat a shortlist of other distinguished characters including Super Ted, Aleksandr Meerkat and Wallace and Gromit to the title.

Wallace and Gromit

The Tale of the Three Brothers, part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, was awarded the best animated sequence in a film. 

The tale of the three brothers, part of a Harry Potter movie

Personally I am happy that the children story "The Gruffalo" has also won, as it is one of the favorite tales of my little sister. :)

The Gruffalo

 r.s.

picture sources:

http://www.kollewin.com/blog/read.php?3249&guid=0 

http://rebelescapades.blogspot.com/2011/04/adventure-5-there-like-paddington-bear.html 

http://sikufital.blogspot.com/2010/12/tale-of-three-brothers.html 

http://theoscarnominatedshortfilms.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-nominated-short-gruffalo.html 

source of information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17382333