Aardman

**Aardman** is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring characters from its flagship franchise, *Wallace and Gromit*. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), they entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). Aardman films have made $1 billion worldwide and average $147 million per film. All of their stop motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films, with their debut, Chicken Run (2000), being their top-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.

Its notable people who worked/formed Aardman were Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Nick Park.

## Filmography

* Chicken Run (2000)
* Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
* Flushed Away (2006)
* Arthur Christmas (2011)
* The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
* Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
* Early Man (2018)
* A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)

## Why Their *Cracking* Business Is What We Call The Pixar Of the UK

1. British animation in its purest form. Speaking of the major animation in the United Kingdom, it was the very first major British animation studios.
2. Well-crafted 3-dimensional animation (using both stop motion clay animation and computer-generated animation techniques). They have also made some 3D animated movies that manage to replicate claymation mostly very well.
3. Its beloved flagship franchise, *Wallace and Gromit*.
4. Because of the success of *A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit*, Aardman decided to shift from Channel 4 network to the commercial-free BBC networks.
5. Brilliant soundtrack. For example, starting in *The Wrong Trousers*, the Wallace and Gromit theme song became a lot more orchestral that proudly fits the British style and the London Symphony Orchestra territory.
6. The humor in their movies is really good and funny. For example, In *Flushed Away* there's a humorous scene where Rita beats up Roddy.
7. They've also made great short films like *Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers* that helped bring them to fame.
8. Great voice acting in most of their works.
9. Great character designs that are well molded.
10. They are known for revolutionizing stop motion claymation movies.
11. Their movies also serve nice messages.
12. They've also made great TV shows like *Shaun the Sheep* (based on a character from the *Wallace and Gromit* short *A Close Shave*).
	* It created its very first preschool program, *Timmy Time*.
13. Lovable and memorable characters such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
14. Their adult shows aren't terrible either, such as *Angry Kid.*

## Not So *Cracking* Qualities

1. Their good films tend to have underperformed at the box office, such as Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, and Early Man.
2. They've made some bad shows like *Chop Socky Chooks*.
3. All the sets, props and models pre-Were Rabbit were lost in a fire.

## Reception

All of their movies received generally positive reviews with *Chicken Run*, *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*, and *Shaun the Sheep Movie* being the most critically acclaimed titles.

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