With his latest stop-motion triumph, “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” Aardman Animations founder Nick Park can happily declare, “This was the first time in 19 years that we were back to the big screen.”

Indeed. The comedy, in theaters last month, now streams on Netflix Friday and ranks as the 6th W&G film.

“You can’t rush a good thing, we always say in the studio,” Park, 66, declared in a virtual press conference.

The immensely popular duo is a classic study in contrasts: Wallace epitomizes the eccentric English inventor while Gromit, a forever silent beagle, vividly communicates via body language, mesmerizing eyes and facial expressions.

Since their 1989 debut Wallace & Gromit have collected three Oscars and five British Academy Film Awards.

“Vengeance” is a comedy highlighted by the return of the series penguin villain, Feathers McGraw, currently locked up for a diamond heist, but not for long.

It is Feathers who wants “Vengeance Most Fowl” as he re-programs Wallace’s robotic Christmas gnomes from GOOD to the very bottom EVIL. Instead of a happy snappy garden gnome bunch they are now a scary stomping force, a March of the Wooden Soldiers turned Storm Troopers.

Only the smart, ever alert Gromit can save the day.

“This started off as a half hour about gnomes going wrong,” Parks said. “But it needed more of sinister motive behind the gnomes and that’s where Feathers came, offering his services.

“A massive breakthrough! It suddenly gave us a villain, a foe with great screen presence and a personal threat to Wallace and Gromit.”

If Gromit is the smartest pooch around, Parks can vividly recall his birth.

“It was in ‘A Grand Day Out,’ my college film, and it was the first shot of Gromit. He actually had a mouth in the early days. But he was in a situation where I couldn’t quite reach and animate his mouth.

“So I just started moving his brow up and down. In that moment, I believe, Gromit was born. In a way, I can’t think how that could’ve happened in any other medium than clay.

“Because of the way as an animator you have to just touch and tease the brow to get all sorts of little nuances.

“And I suddenly realized the power of subtlety and nuance and how that suddenly gave Gromit a personality that was not what I planned.

“He became almost more human than Wallace. And more! he was sensitive and long-suffering — emotions that everyone has.

“And I was surprised how much everyone read it immediately. In a way, Wallace was like the stupid one and Gromit suddenly was the intelligent, sensitive one. ”

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” streams on Netflix Jan. 3

Feathers McGraw in a scene from the film “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.” (Netflix via AP)