Aardman Animations

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Image:Aardman Animations Logo.gif Aardman Animations, Ltd. a.k.a. Aardman Studios is an Academy-awarded animation studio settled in Bristol / UK. Aardman is famous for its claymation-animation productions, mostly filmed in ardous and costly stop motion techniques.

1 History
2 Aardman Animations productions
- 2.1 Aardman Features
3 Books
4 External links

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History

Aardman was founded as a small backyard project by an ambitious couple named Peter Lord and David Sproxton in the mid-1970s. Lord and Sproxton wanted to realize their dream of an animated motion picture. First they worked with simple animation effects, followed by increasing their talent in modelling plastiline and clay creatures. So, for example, shown in the Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer (1986) directed by Stephen Johnson. A short time later Nick Park joined the group. Park developed the awarded and world-famous clay modelled shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace & Gromit, a comical yet buddyful "dreamteam": Wallace the naive green-knitted-tank-top-wearing inventor and his best pal, the intelligent but silent dog, Gromit. The "cheeselovers“ withstand many adventures such as A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995). In the year 2000 Aardman Studios "let the birds" fly with Chicken Run, an awarded worldwide box-office hit. This movie was Aardman's first feature film. 2005 and after ten years being on holiday Wallace and Gromit returned very rested and relaxed on the silver screen in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and caught the next "Oscar" Academy award for full-length animated film.