12 Facts About Aardman Features

Aardman Features's films have been consistently very well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, Chicken Run, being their top-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.

Aardman Features 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.

Aardman Features 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".

Later Aardman Features produced a number of shorts for Channel 4, including the Conversation Pieces series.

The next year, Aardman Features released a new Wallace and Gromit short film, called A Matter of Loaf and Death.

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In 2008, Aardman Features joined with Channel 4 and Lupus Films to launch a user-generated content animation portal called 4mations.

From December 2008, Aardman Features started posting various flash games on Newgrounds, the majority of which are based on Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

In 2009, Nintendo announced that Aardman Features would make twelve short films using only Flipnote Studio.

On 9 November 2018, Aardman Features Animations announced that Peter Lord and David Sproxton would be transferring majority ownership of the company to its employees in order to keep the studio independent.

Aardman Features has stated that the name came from a combination of "Aardvark" and "Superman" for the reason that they found aardvark to be a particularly funny word.

Aardman Features Animations became their company name when the BBC asked them to whom they should make their first cheque out.

Aardman Features is the co-creator of the Finnish-British animated series Moominvalley, based on the Moomins books.