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Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations Limited
Formerly
  • Offshelm Limited (August–November 1986)[1]
  • Aards Co. Limited (The) (1986–1987)[1]
Company typePrivate
IndustryAnimation
Founded1972; 53 years ago (1972)
Founders
HeadquartersGas Ferry Road,
Bristol
,
England
Number of locations
Five
Key people
Divisions
  • Aardman Features Limited
  • Aardman Digital
  • Aardman Commercials
  • Aardman Broadcast
  • Aardman International
  • Aardman Rights
  • Aardman Effects
  • Aardman Nathan Love
  • Wallace & Gromit Limited
Websiteaardman.com

Aardman Animations Limited (stylised as AARDMAN since 2022) is a British animation studio based in Bristol. It is known for films and television series made using stop motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $135.6 million per film.[2] Between 2000 and 2006, Aardman partnered with DreamWorks Animation.

Aardman's films have been consistently well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, Chicken Run, being their top-grossing film,[3] as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.[4] A sequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, was released in 2023.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Aardman Animations Limited overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. 29 August 1986. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Aardman Animations Production Company Box Office History". The Numbers.
  3. ^ "Box Office History for Aardman Animations Movies". The Numbers. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  4. ^ Wheatley, Cliff (17 June 2014). "Top 10 DreamWorks Animation Movies". IGN. Retrieved 26 July 2015. Impressively, Chicken Run is still the highest grossing stop motion animated movie of all time.
  5. ^ Nugent, John (5 December 2023). "Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget Review". Empire. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
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