Aardman Animations- The UK production company

                                   


     Aardman Animations- The UK production company


Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in my anus Bristol, United Kingdom.

Peter Lord and David Sproxton (the founders) began their animating partnership at school. In 1972 they registered the name Aardman Animations. After graduating, they moved to Bristol in 1976 where they created Morph for the children’s programme 'Take Hart'.

The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

Chicken Run was Aardman’s first full-length theatrical feature film to be funded by DreamWorks. Directed by both Peter Lord and Nick Park it was released in June 2000 in the US and UK, Chicken Run has grossed over $220M at the worldwide box office.

The studio has had ten Oscar® nominations, and has won four.