These five shorts worked in the same area as the Animated Conversations pieces, but were more sophisticated. Later Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4, including the Conversation Pieces series. Also in the 1980s, they created the trombone-playing character "Douglas" in a television commercial for Lurpak butter. They produced the music video for the song " My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone in 1987.
Aardman also created the title sequence for The Great Egg Race and supplied animation for the multiple award-winning music video of Peter Gabriel's song " Sledgehammer". Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks. After creating a segment called "Greeblies" (1975) using clay animation, became what was the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. The company name originates from the name of their nerdish Superman character in that sequence. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On. Īardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. įounders Peter Lord and David Sproxton at the 2016 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where they accepted the Animation Personality of the Year Award. Aardman has been consistently very well received, and their stop motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films, with their debut, Chicken Run (2000), being their top-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time. As of February 2020, Aardman films had made $1.1 billion worldwide and average $134.7 million per film. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), they entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph.
(also known as Aardman Studios, simply Aardman or Aardman Animation) is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England.
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