Aardman Animations is an animation studio in Bristol, England that produces stop motion and computer-animated features, shorts, TV series and adverts.
# | Title | Release date | In partnership with | Distributor | Budget | Gross | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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1 | Chicken Run | June 23, 2000 | DreamWorks Animation | DreamWorks Pictures (International) Pathé (Europe) | $45 million | $224.8 million | 97% | 88 |
2 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | October 14, 2005 | DreamWorks Pictures | $30 million | $192.6 million | 95% | 87 | |
3 | Flushed Away | November 3, 2006 | Paramount Pictures | $149 million | $178 million | 73% | 74 | |
4 | Arthur Christmas | November 11, 2011 | Sony Pictures Animation | Columbia Pictures (via Sony Pictures Releasing) | $100 million | $147 million | 92% | 69 |
5 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | March 28, 2012 | $55 million | $123 million | 86% | 73 | ||
6 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | February 6, 2015 | StudioCanal | StudioCanal Lionsgate (USA) | $25 million | $106.2 million | 99% | 81 |
7 | Early Man | January 26, 2018 | $50 million | $54.6 million | 80% | 68 | ||
8 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | October 18, 2019 | StudioCanal Netflix (USA and Latin America) | $25 million | $47.8 million | 96% | 79 | |
9 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | December 15, 2023 | Netflix | N/A | N/A | 81% | 63 |
Note: Rights to the Aardman films produced with DreamWorks Animation are now owned by Universal Pictures, following NBCUniversal's purchase of DreamWorks in 2016.
Title | Release date | Notes |
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Untitled Wallace and Gromit film | December 2024 [1] | Distributed by BBC Film in the United Kingdom and Netflix worldwide [2] [3] [4] [5] |
Untitled Gurinder Chadha film | TBA | Co-production with Bend It Networks [6] [7] |
Title | Premiere date | End date | Co-production(s) | Network |
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Vision On (segments) | 1972 | 1976 | BBC | |
Aard-Man | 1972 | 1973 | ||
Greeblies | 1974 | 1975 | ||
Take Hart (segments) | 1977 | 1982 | ||
The Amazing Adventures of Morph | October 13, 1980 | 1981 | ||
The Great Egg Race (opening titles, series 4 to 7) [8] | April 15, 1982 | June 28, 1985 | ||
Hartbeat (segments) | 1984 | 1993 | ||
Round the Bend (segments) | January 6, 1989 | July 1, 1991 | ITV | |
The Art Box Bunch | 1995 | 1995 | BBC | |
The Morph Files | January 4, 1996 | March 29, 1996 | ||
Rex the Runt | December 21, 1998 | December 16, 2001 | Egmont Imagination EVA Entertainment (series 1) | BBC Two |
Smart Hart | 1999 | 2000 | BBC | |
Angry Kid (original run) | 1999 | 2007 | Mr Morris Productions | Channel 4 BBC Three |
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | October 15, 2002 | Christmas 2002 | BBC One | |
The Presentators | 2003 | 2004 | Nickelodeon | |
Creature Comforts | October 1, 2003 | June 18, 2007 | ITV | |
Planet Sketch | 2005 | 2008 | Decode Entertainment | CITV |
Purple and Brown | 2006 | 2007 | Nickelodeon | |
Pib and Pog | 2006 | 2006 | BBC | |
Shaun the Sheep | March 5, 2007 | present | Westdeutscher Rundfunk | CBBC (Series 1-5) Netflix (series 6) |
Creature Comforts America [9] | June 4, 2007 | June 18, 2007 | Gotham Group | CBS |
Chop Socky Chooks | March 17, 2008 | November 28, 2008 | Decode Entertainment | Cartoon Network Teletoon |
A Town Called Panic | January 2009 | January 2009 | La Parti Pic Pic André | Nickelodeon |
Timmy Time | April 6, 2009 | July 13, 2012 | CBeebies (Series 1-3) | |
Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | November 3, 2010 | December 8, 2010 | BBC | |
Canimals [10] [11] | June 9, 2011 | present | VoozClub Co., Ltd. BRB Internacional Screen 21 | EBS CITV |
DC Nation Shorts [12] ("DC's World Funnest" shorts) | November 11, 2011 | July 27, 2014 | Cartoon Network | |
Shaun the Sheep 3D [13] | March 7, 2012 | June 13, 2012 | Nintendo Video | |
Shaun The Sheep Championsheeps [14] | July 2, 2012 | July 13, 2012 | CBBC | |
Brand New Morph/The Epic Adventures of Morph [15] | July 4, 2014 | present | YouTube (series 1 Sky Kids (series 2-present) | |
Angry Kid (revival series) [16] | July 3, 2015 | November 8, 2019 | Mr Morris Productions | YouTube |
Golden Morph [17] | August 7, 2015 | present | YouTube | |
Morph: The Lost Tapes [18] | November 6, 2015 | January 7, 2016 | YouTube | |
Meet David Attenborough [19] | May 6, 2016 | May 8, 2016 | BBC One | |
Counterfeit Cat [20] | May 12, 2016 | January 22, 2017 | Wildseed Kids Tricon Kids & Family Atomic Cartoons | Disney XD Teletoon |
Lloyd of the Flies [21] | September 20, 2022 | present | CITV ZDF | |
The Very Small Creatures [22] | March 4, 2022 | present | Sky Kids | Sky Kids |
Adventures of ArachnoFly | October 6, 2023 | present | YouTube | |
Things We Love [23] | March 8, 2024 | present | BBC One |
This is a selected list of commercials produced by Aardman. By 2000, the studio had produced over 100 commercials, at a rate of 15–20 spots per year. [46] In the year 2009 alone, the studio produced 106 commercials. [47]
Film | Directed by | Produced by | Executive Producer(s) | Written by | Music by | Edited by | Year |
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Chicken Run | Peter Lord Nick Park | Nick Park Peter Lord David Sproxton | Jeffrey Katzenberg Michael Rose Jake Eberts | Screenplay by: Karey Kirkpatrick Story by: Peter Lord Nick Park | John Powell Harry Gregson-Williams | Mark Solomon | 2000 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park Steve Box | Nick Park Claire Jennings Peter Lord Carla Shelley David Sproxton | Michael Rose Cecil Kramer | Nick Park Steve Box Bob Baker Mark Burton | Julian Nott | David McCormick Gregory Perler | 2005 |
Flushed Away | David Bowers Sam Fell | Cecil Kramer Peter Lord David Sproxton | N/D | Screenplay by: Dick Clement Ian La Frenais Christopher Lloyd Joe Keenan William Davies Story by: Sam Fell Peter Lord Dick Clement Ian La Frenais | Harry Gregson-Williams | Eric Dapkewicz John Venzon | 2006 |
Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith Barry Cook (Co-director) | Steve Pegram Peter Lord Carla Shelley | Peter Baynham Cheryl Abood | Peter Baynham Sarah Smith | John Carnochan James Cooper | 2011 | |
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Peter Lord Jeff Newitt (Co-director) | Julie Lockhart Peter Lord David Sproxton | Carla Shelley | Gideon Defoe | Theodore Shapiro | Justin Krish | 2012 |
Shaun the Sheep Movie | Richard Starzak Mark Burton | Paul Kewley Julie Lockhart | Nick Park Peter Lord Olivier Courson Ron Halpern David Sproxton | Richard Starzak Mark Burton | Ilan Eshkeri | Sim Evan-Jones | 2015 |
Early Man | Nick Park | Peter Lord Carla Shelley Nick Park David Sproxton Richard Beek | Natascha Wharton Ben Roberts Danny Perkins Didier Lupfer Ron Halpern Alicia Gold | Screenplay by: Mark Burton James Higginson Story by: Mark Burton Nick Park | Harry Gregson-Williams Tom Howe | 2018 | |
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Richard Phelan Will Becher | Paul Kewley | Nick Park Carla Shelley Ron Halpern Didier Lupfer Richard Starzak Mark Burton Peter Lord David Sproxton | Screenplay by: Jon Brown Mark Burton Story by: Richard Starzak | Tom Howe | 2019 | |
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Sam Fell [2] Jeff Newitt (Co-director) | Steve Pegram [2] Leyla Hobart [2] | Peter Lord [2] Nick Park [2] Karey Kirkpatrick [2] Carla Shelley [2] | Screenplay by: Karey Kirkpatrick [2] John O'Farrell [2] Rachel Tunnard [2] Story by: Karey Kirkpatrick [2] John O'Farrell [2] | Harry Gregson-Williams [78] | Stephen Perkins | 2023 |
Film | Directed by | Produced by | Executive Producer(s) | Written by | Music by | Edited by | Year |
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Untitled Wallace and Gromit film | Nick Park [2] Merlin Crossingham [2] | Claire Jennings [2] | TBC | Screenplay by: Mark Burton [2] Story by: Nick Park [2] Mark Burton [2] | TBC | TBC | 2024 |
Title | Release Date | Platform[s] | Developer | Publisher |
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Chicken Run | 2000 | PlayStation, Dreamcast, Windows | Blitz Games | Eidos Interactive |
Chicken Run [79] | 2000 | Game Boy Color | Blitz Games | THQ |
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo | 2003 | PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows | Frontier Developments | BAM! Entertainment |
Rex the Runt: Lost Marbles | 2005 | Mobile | AirPlay UK | Coyote Wireless |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile Phone | Frontier Developments | Konami |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [80] | 2005 | Mobile Phone | Frontier Developments | Konami |
Flushed Away | 2006 | PlayStation 2, GameCube | Monkey Bar Games | D3 Publisher |
Flushed Away [81] | 2006 | Game Boy Advance | Altron | D3 Publisher |
Flushed Away [82] | 2006 | DS | Art Co., Ltd | D3 Publisher |
Shaun the Sheep | 2008 | DS | Art Co., Ltd | D3 Publisher |
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures | 2009 | Windows, Xbox 360, iOS | Telltale Games | Telltale Games |
Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head | 2009 | DS | Art Co., Ltd | D3 Publisher |
Home Sheep Home | 2011 | iOS, Flash | Aardman Digital (Browser), Virtual Programming (iOS port) | Aardman Animations (browser) / Virtual Programming |
Home Sheep Home 2 | 2011 | iOS, Flash | Aardman Digital (Win), Mobile Pie., Ltd (iOS port) | Aardman Animations (browser) / Chillingo |
Fleece Lightning | 2013 | Android, iOS | Aardman Interactive | Aardman Interactive |
Shaun the Sheep: Llama League | 2015 | iOS, Android | Aardman Animations | Aardman Animations |
Shaun the Sheep: Shear Speed | 2015 | Android, iOS | Aardman Animations | Aardman Animations |
11-11: Memories Retold | 2018 | Windows, PS4, Xbox One | DigixArt and Aardman Animations | Bandai Namco |
Shaun the Sheep: Home Sheep Home - Farmageddon Party Edition | 2019 | Windows, Switch | Aardman Animations | Aardman Animations |
Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up | 2021 | iOS, Android | Aardman Animations, Tiny Rebel Games, Potato, Sugar Creative | Fictioneers |
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Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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1990 | Creature Comforts | Best Animated Short | Nick Park | Won |
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | Nominated | ||
1993 | Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | Won | |
1995 | Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave | Nick Park | Won | |
2006 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Best Animated Feature | Nick Park and Steve Box | Won |
2009 | Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death | Best Animated Short | Nick Park | Nominated |
2013 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Best Animated Feature | Peter Lord | Nominated |
2016 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | ||
2021 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Will Becher, Richard Phelan and Paul Kewley | Nominated |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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2001 | Chicken Run | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton | Nominated |
2012 | Arthur Christmas | Best Animated Feature Film | Sarah Smith | |
2016 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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2001 | Chicken Run | Best British Film | Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton | Nominated |
Best Visual Effects | Paddy Eason, Mark Nelmes, and Dave Alex Riddett | |||
2006 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Best British Film | Nick Park, Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Claire Jennings, Bob Baker and Mark Burton | Won |
2007 | Flushed Away | Best Animated Film | David Bowers and Sam Fell | Nominated |
2012 | Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith | ||
2016 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | ||
2020 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Will Becher, Richard Phelan and Paul Kewley | ||
2024 [83] | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Sam Fell, Steve Pegram and Leyla Hobart |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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2000 | Chicken Run | Best Animated Feature | Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton | Nominated |
Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park and Peter Lord | |||
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Karey Kirkpatrick | |||
2006 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | |||
Best Animated Feature | Nick Park, Claire Jennings, Peter Lord, Carla Shelley and David Sproxton | Won | ||
Annie Award for Best Character Animation | Claire Billet | |||
Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park | |||
Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park and Steve Box | |||
Best Music in a Feature Production | Julian Nott | |||
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Phil Lewis | |||
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Bob Persichetti | |||
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Peter Sallis as Wallace | |||
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Bob Baker | |||
Best Character Animation | Jay Grace and Christopher Sadler | |||
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Michael Salter | Nominated | ||
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula Tottington | |||
Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine | ||||
Nicholas Smith as Reverend Clement Hedges | ||||
2007 | Flushed Away | Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies | Won |
Voice Acting in a Feature Production | Ian McKellen as "The Toad" | |||
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Pierre-Olivier Vincent | |||
Best Animated Effects | Scott Cegielski | |||
Directing in a Feature Production | David Bowers and Sam Fell | Nominated | ||
Best Character Animation in a Feature Production | "Flushed Away" | |||
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Simon Wells | |||
2012 | Arthur Christmas | Best Animated Feature | Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Carla Shelley and Steve Pegram | |
Voice Acting in a Feature Production | Ashley Jensen | |||
Bill Nighy | Won | |||
Storyboarding in a Feature Production | Kris Pearn | Nominated | ||
Character Design In an Animated Film | Peter de Sève | |||
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Sarah Smith and Peter Baynham | |||
2013 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Best Animated Feature | Julie Lockhart, Peter Lord and David Sproxton | |
Character Animation in a Feature Production | Will Becher | |||
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Norman Garwood and Matt Perry | |||
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria | |||
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Gideon Defoe | |||
2016 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Best Animated Feature | Julie Lockhart and Paul Kewley | |
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | |||
Directing in an Animated Feature Production | ||||
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Matt Perry and Gavin Lines | |||
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production | Sim-Evan Jones | |||
2019 | Early Man | Best Animated Feature | Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Carla Shelley and Richard Beek | |
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production | Howard Jones, Dave Alex Riddett, Grant Hewlett, Pat Andrew and Elena Vitanza Chiarani | |||
Directing in a Feature Production | Nick Park | |||
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production | Laurie Sitzia | |||
Music in a Feature Production | Harry Gregson-Williams and Tom Howe | |||
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Matt Perry and Richard Edmunds | |||
Voice Acting in a Feature Production | Eddie Redmayne | |||
2021 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Best Animated Feature — Independent | Paul Kewley | |
Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Mark Burton and Jon Brown | |||
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production | Sim Evan-Jones | |||
2024 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Best Animated Effects | Charles Copping, Jon Biggins, Jim Lewis, Rich Spence and Martin Lipmann | |
Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Richard Phelan | |||
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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2001 | Chicken Run | Best Animated Feature | Nick Park and Peter Lord | Won |
2006 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park and Steve Box | ||
2007 | Flushed Away | David Bowers and Sam Fell | Nominated | |
2012 | Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith | ||
2016 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | ||
Special Achievement Award for the 2015 Critics' Choice Award [84] | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Won | ||
2021 | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Best Animated Movie | Richard Phelan and Will Becher | Nominated |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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2000 | Chicken Run | Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie | Mel Gibson | Nominated |
2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Favorite Animated Movie | Nominated |
type | Series | Title | Description |
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film | original project | The Tortoise and the Hare | Intended to be based on Aesop's fable and directed by Richard Goleszowski, [85] The Tortoise and the Hare was put on hold two years later because of script issues. [86] |
film | The Twits | Crood Awakening | The film was announced in May 2005, under the working title Crood Awakening, [87] originally a stop motion film, being made by Aardman Animations [88] as a part of a "five film deal" with DreamWorks Animation. John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco had been working together on a feature based on Roald Dahl's story The Twits , [89] a project that never went into production. Later released as DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods . |
film | original project | The Cat Burglars | An animated heist action-adventure black comedy film directed by Steve Box and Darren Walsh, about 6 cat burglars that steal milk, and their plans to pull off 'the great milk float robbery' before some humans neuter them. [90] On 9 June 2022 it was announced that the project is being revived as a Netflix CGI original. [91] |
film | original project | The Scarecrow and his Servant | An adaptation of a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant. As he goes on his quest he tries to reach Spring Valley to claim it for his own. He has many troubles along the way such as a bird who ate his brain and being on a deserted island. |
film | The Pirates! | Sequels to The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | By August 2011, Aardman Animations had been already working on a sequel idea for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! , [92] and by June 2012, a story had been prepared, awaiting Sony to back the project. [93] Eventually, Sony decided not to support the project due to insufficient international earnings. According to director Peter Lord, "it got close, but not quite close enough. I was all fired up for doing more. It was such fun to do! We actually have a poster for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Cowboys!. That would have been just great." [94] |
Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and made public in 1989. Wallace was voiced by actor Peter Sallis until 2010 when he was succeeded by Ben Whitehead. While Wallace speaks very often, Gromit is largely silent and has no dialogue, communicating through facial expressions and body language.
Aardman Animations Limited is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films and television series made using stop-motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from Wallace and Gromit, 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.
Nicholas Wulstan Park is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace and Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). A Close Shave won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. A Close Shave saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the main character of the Shaun the Sheep spin-off series.
The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit, and was produced by Aardman Animations in association with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol, Lionheart Television and BBC Children's International. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989). In the film, a villainous penguin, Feathers McGraw, posing as a lodger, recruits Wallace by using his techno-trousers to steal a diamond from the city museum.
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit. It was directed, animated and co-written by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.
Morph is a British series of clay stop-motion comedy animations, named after the main character, who is a small terracotta-skinned plasticine man, who speaks an unintelligible language and lives on a tabletop, his bedroom being a small wooden box. The character was initially seen interacting with Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his British television programmes, notably Take Hart, Hartbeat and SMart.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 stop-motion animated comedy film directed by Nick Park and Steve Box. It was produced, made and owned by DreamWorks Animation in collaboration with Aardman Animations. It was the second feature-length film by Aardman, after Chicken Run (2000) and the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by its parent DreamWorks Pictures, as the studio spun off as an independent studio in 2004 until its acquisition by NBCUniversal in 2016. The film debuted in Sydney, Australia on 4 September 2005, before being released in theaters in the United States on 7 October 2005 and in the United Kingdom a week later on 14 October 2005.
Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a British series of ten Wallace and Gromit stop-motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's skeptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations. All ten shorts were aired on BBC One after the television premiere of Chicken Run (2000).
Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated silent comedy children's television series and a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. The title character is Shaun, a sheep who previously appeared in the 1995 short film A Close Shave and the Shopper 13 short film from the 2002 Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions series. The series focuses on his adventures on a northern English farm as the leader of his flock.
Steven Royston Box is an English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations.
A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion animated short film produced by Aardman Animations, created by Nick Park, and is the fourth short to star his characters Wallace and Gromit, the first one since A Close Shave in 1995.
Timmy Time is a British stop-motion animated television programme for preschoolers created and produced by Bob the Builder producer Jackie Cockle for the BBC's CBeebies and produced by Aardman Animations. It started broadcasting in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2009. It is a spin-off of Shaun the Sheep, itself a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave (1995).
Christopher Sadler is a British animator, director and writer. He is primarily known for his work on Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Rex the Runt, Cracking Contraptions, Creature Comforts and Shaun the Sheep.
Shaun the Sheep Movie is a 2015 stop-motion animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton. It is based on the British television series Shaun the Sheep, in turn a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave (1995). Starring the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, and Omid Djalili, the film follows Shaun and his flock navigating the big city to save their amnesiac farmer, while an overzealous animal control worker pursues the group. It was produced by Aardman Animations, and financed by StudioCanal in association with Anton Capital Entertainment.
Gromit Unleashed was a public charity art trail led by Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations, in which 80 giant artist-decorated fibreglass sculptures of Gromit were displayed on the streets of Bristol and the surrounding area between 1 July and 8 September 2013. At the end of the art trail, the sculptures were auctioned to raise funds for Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. The Grand Appeal pledged to raise £3.5 million for state-of-the-art equipment for Bristol Children's Hospital, including an intraoperative MRI scanner, family facilities and child-friendly artwork to help save the lives of sick children at the hospital. All funds raised by Gromit Unleashed contributed towards this. The project follows the concept of the "Land in Sicht", the original Swiss project by artistic director Walter Knapp which inspired the subsequent worldwide exhibition "CowParade" and similar exhibitions in other cities, including Wow! Gorillas which took place in Bristol in 2011. To date Gromit Unleashed has raised over £5 million for Bristol Children's Hospital.
Shaun in the City was a public charity arts trail organised by Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation and Aardman Animations, in which 120 giant, artist and celebrity-decorated fibreglass sculptures of Shaun the Sheep were displayed in famous locations and green spaces around London and Bristol. The first 50 Shaun sculptures appeared in London from 28 March to 31 May 2015, with a further 70 Shaun sculptures appearing in Bristol from 6 July to 31 August 2015.
Gromit Unleashed 2 was a public arts trail in Bristol, England. The trail featured 67 giant sculptures designed by high-profile artists, designers, innovators and local talent. Sculptures are positioned in high footfall and iconic locations around Bristol and the surrounding area from 2 July to 2 September 2018. A sequel to Gromit Unleashed in 2013, the trail featured statues of Wallace on a life-size bench, Gromit, and Feathers McGraw. On the 23rd of August 2023 a fourth trail was announced, the trail in Bristol will run in 2025.
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is a 2019 stop-motion animated science fiction comedy film produced by Aardman Animations. The film is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher and written by Mark Burton and Jon Brown, based on an idea by Richard Starzak. It is a stand-alone sequel to Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) and is based on the claymation television series Shaun the Sheep, a spinoff from the Wallace and Gromit short film A Close Shave. It is the first sequel ever made by Aardman and in stop-motion in general. The film stars Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour, and Rich Webber reprising their voice roles from the series and the previous film, whilst new cast members include Amalia Vitale, David Holt and Chris Morrell. In the film, Shaun and the flock encounter a cute alien with extraordinary powers, who crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm. They have to find a way to return her home in order to prevent her falling into the hands of the Ministry for Alien Detection.
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