 To prepare the Aardman animators for animating the Wallace and  Gromit characters and world, ten short films were made by the  various animating teams. They were released online under the title  _Wallace & Gromits Cracking Contraptions (2002) (V)_ (qv); the  first, "Soccamatic", was a free download, but the other nine were  only available by subscribing or by ordering the DVD.