14 Facts About Aardman

Aardman Animations Limited is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England.

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

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

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

From December 2008, Aardman 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 would make twelve short films using only Flipnote Studio.

On 9 November 2018, Aardman 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 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 Animations became their company name when the BBC asked them to whom they should make their first cheque out.

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

Aardman Animation has produced a number of animated features, shorts, videos and TV series, as well as adverts.