A clever inventor has re-created the iconic Wallace and Gromit morning routine complete with self-making toast and jam.

Joseph Herscher, 40, recreated the classic scene from Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, in which Wallace builds elaborate machines to simplify his morning routine.

Joseph has been a fan of the British series since childhood, so when Aardman Animations, the creators, reached out to him "it felt like a childhood dream come to life."

Aardman contacted Joseph a year ago after spotting his Wallace-like viral inventions online, and were delighted to hear that he planned to recreate this scene.

In total, it took him two months to complete the project and two full days of filming to create the now 29-second scene.

Joseph, an inventor and YouTuber based in London, said: "It's felt like a childhood dream come to life."

"I have wondered about how this invention could be made since I first saw the film in 1993."

"It took about two months on and off to get it to a point where we could go ahead and film it."

To play Gromit, Joseph hired a dog named Archie.

Archie underwent a few training sessions to learn his role, which involved pushing a button to catapult the jam onto a piece of toast as it pops out of a toaster.

As the project got underway, it became clear that two key elements were going to be hardest to perfect: sliding down into the trousers and catapulting jam across a table to land on a slice of toast.

With the trousers, Joseph quickly realised the drop was much higher and scarier than expected.

Joseph said: "I realised I wouldn't feel good or safe dropping straight down from that height so we hung a bar that was connected to pullies on a counterweight."

"This meant it could lower me in a more controlled and gradual way before dropping me in the trousers."

Joseph ended up doing 65 takes to perfect the toast and jam stunt.

In the original cartoon, Wallace has a contraption that times the toast popping up with jam flying across the table to land on it precisely.

It took Joseph a lot of trial and error - and a bit of chemistry - to prevent the jam from splattering everywhere.

Joseph said: "The jam really did feel like the hardest part of the whole project."

"I realised early on that if I catapulted it as it is, it would just fly everywhere instead of aiming directly for the toast."

"So, I mixed sodium alginate in with the jam before placing it into a bowl of water that has calcium lactate in it."

"Because these two chemicals don't get along, the jam forms a sort of hard skin around it which keeps it in a spherical shape."

Joseph added: "This project really meant a lot more to me than some of my other ones."

"Having been an Aardman fan since I was a kid, this really felt like I was fulfilling every little inventor's dream."