Aardman Studios

Aardman Studios is an animation studio specialising in stop motion animation based in the UK. They work in claymation for their programs howver they have also used computer aniamtion for other productions. 

 Aardman was founded 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in their attempt to create animation motion pictures. Their first piece of animation came in the form of "Greeblies" in 1975. They used clay mation for this type of animation which would be the foundation for creating "Morph" later. Later more animators came to join Aardman one of them being Nick Park the creator of the famuous Wallace and Gromit.

Parks first short known as "Creature Comforts" was the first Aardman aniamtion to win an Oscar. The first Wallace and Gromit shorts "A Grand Day Out" (1989) "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995) were huge successed, in fact the final two won Academy Awards. 

In 1997 Aardman and Dreamworks studios teamed up to create Aardmans first feature film "Chicken Run" which was a stop motion animation made in clay. Chicken Run was a complete financial success and made $224,834,564 at the box office. 

Their second film was "Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were Rabbit". This film was created 10 years after the last Wallace and Gromit short. This was an extremley successful film for Aardman and was awarded an academy award much like the other Wallace and Gromit shorts that were created earlier. 

Their final film was "Flushed Away" in 2006. This was not created in claymation isntead it was Aardmans first computer animation. This however was not as successful as the previous films and because of the Aardman and Dreamworks cut ties and no longer collaborated. 

Aardman also created other shorts such as "Shaun the Sheep" which is an off shoot of one character that stared in one Wallace and Gromit short namley Shaun. This has been very successful on TV spawning two seasons and a third one coming in 2013.

Currently Aardman is working on two films. One called "The Cat Burglars" and the otehr is anotehr Nick Park production however it has been confirmed as not another Wallace nad Gromit film.

Aardman is a cery good company that is rooted in stop motion and has made an impact on the film industry using stop motion.