Shaun the Sheep is tehnically a spinoff from the Wallace and Gromit short, A Close Shave. Like everything Aardman does, the series is brilliant, and now it will be brilliant in cinemas. Shuan The Sheep The Movie will see release in 2015, and a teaser has been released that made me laugh harder than the last three whole American animated movies (that didn't involved Dutch building blocks).
The plot will involve Shaun going to the Big City, so one assumes directors/writers ark Burton and Richard Starzack watched Babe: Pig In the City to understand what not to do.