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| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[Shaun the Sheep Movie#Sequel|Shaun the Sheep 2]]''<ref name=VarietySmashBenchmarks>{{cite news|last1=Hopewell|first1=John|title=‘Legend,’ ‘Shaun,’ Smash Benchmarks for Studiocanal|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/news/legend-shaun-smash-benchmarks-as-studiocanal-universal-music-group-explore-synergies-exclusive-1201592926/|accessdate=15 September 2015|work=Variety|date=14 September 2015|archivedate= 15 September 2015| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150915152410/http://variety.com/2015/film/news/legend-shaun-smash-benchmarks-as-studiocanal-universal-music-group-explore-synergies-exclusive-1201592926/ | deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Animated Conversations|Animated Conversations: Down and Out]]'' (1977) |
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* ''[[Animated Conversations|Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl]]'' (1978) |
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* ''[[On Probation (1983 film)|Conversation Pieces: On Probation]]'' (1983) |
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* ''[[Sales Pitch (film)|Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch]]'' (1983 |
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* ''[[Conversation Pieces|Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days]]'' (1983) |
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* ''[[Conversation Pieces|Conversation Pieces: Early Bird]]'' (1983) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || ''[[Animated Conversations|Animated Conversations: Down and Out]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 17 October 1977 |
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* ''[[Conversation Pieces|Conversation Pieces: Late Edition]]'' (1983) |
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* ''Sweet Disaster: Babylon'' (1986) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2 || ''[[Animated Conversations|Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 16 October 1978 |
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* ''Going Equipped'' (1987) |
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* ''[[A Grand Day Out]]'' (1989) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 3 || ''Conversation Pieces: On Probation'' || style="text-align:right;"| 9 April 1983 |
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* ''[[Creature Comforts]]'' (1989) |
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* ''War Story'' (1989) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || ''Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch'' || style="text-align:right;"| 22 June 1983 |
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* ''Ident'' (1989) |
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* ''Next'' (1989) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 5 || ''Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days'' || style="text-align:right;"| 24 July 1983 |
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* ''Adam'' (1991) |
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* ''[[Rex the Runt|Rex the Runt: North by North Pole]]'' (1993) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || ''Conversation Pieces: Early Bird'' || style="text-align:right;"| 8 September 1983 |
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* ''Loves Me, Loves Me Not'' (1993) |
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* ''Not Without My Handbag'' (1993) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 7 || ''Conversation Pieces: Late Edition'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1983 |
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* ''[[The Wrong Trousers]]'' (1993) |
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* ''[[Pib and Pog]]'' (1993) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || ''Sweet Disaster: Babylon'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1986 |
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* ''Pop'' (1993) |
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* ''[[Rex the Runt|Rex the Runt: How the Dinosaurs Became Extinct]]'' (1993) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || ''Going Equipped'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1987 |
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* ''[[A Close Shave]]'' (1995) |
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* ''[[Hartbeat|The Art Box Bunch]]'' (1995) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || ''[[A Grand Day Out]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 24 December 1989 |
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* ''Wat's Pig'' (1996) |
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* ''Owzat'' (1997) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || ''[[Creature Comforts]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 15 July 1989 |
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* ''[[Stage Fright (animated film)|Stage Fright]]'' (1997) |
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* ''[[Humdrum]]'' (1998) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 12 || ''War Story'' || style="text-align:right;"| 27 September 1989 |
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* ''Al Dente'' (1998) |
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* ''[[Minotaur and Little Nerkin]]'' (1999) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 13 || ''Ident'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1989 |
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* ''The Non-Voters'' (for the BBC Election coverage) (2004) |
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* ''[[A Matter of Loaf and Death]]'' (2008) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 14 || ''Next'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1989 |
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* ''Dot'' (2010) |
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* ''[[Gulp (short film)|Gulp]]'' (2011) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 15 || ''Adam'' || style="text-align:right;"| 6 June 1991 |
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* ''The Itch of The Golden Nit'' (2011) |
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* ''DC's World Funnest'' ("[[DC Nation Shorts]]") (2012-2014) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || ''[[Rex the Runt|Rex the Runt: North by North Pole]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1993 |
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* ''[[Timmy Time#Episode list|Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise]]'' (2011) |
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* ''[[Timmy Time#Episode list|Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue]]'' (2012) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || ''Loves Me, Loves Me Not'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1993 |
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* ''[[Jubilee Bunt-a-thon|Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon]]'' (2012) |
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* ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (film)#Home media|So You Want to Be a Pirate!]]'' (2012) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 18 || ''Not Without My Handbag'' || style="text-align:right;"| 14 November 1993 |
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* ''[[Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels]]'' (2012) |
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* ''[[Darkside (radio play)#Marketing|Darkside]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Aardman animates trailer to Radio 2 Pink Floyd play|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23768213|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=9 March 2015|date=20 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=AARDMAN TURN TO THE DARKSIDE FOR PINK FLOYD AND BBC RADIO 2|url=http://www.aardman.com/aardman-turn-to-the-darkside-for-pink-floyd-and-bbc-radio-2/|publisher=Aardman|accessdate=9 March 2015|date=20 August 2013}}</ref> (2013) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || ''[[The Wrong Trousers]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 26 December 1993 |
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* ''[[Sphere (2013 film)|Sphere]]'' (2013) |
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* ''Zombie Fairy''<ref>http://www.aardman.com/wiltshire-pupil-has-winning-storyboard-brought-to-life-by-aardman-and-intofilm/</ref> (2014) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 20 || ''[[Pib and Pog]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1993 |
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* ''Special Delivery''<ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/oscar-winning-feast-director-creating-798569</ref> (2015) |
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* ''[[Shaun the Sheep#Television special|Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas]]'' (2015) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || ''Pop'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1993 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || ''[[Rex the Runt|Rex the Runt: How the Dinosaurs Became Extinct]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1993 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 24 || ''[[A Close Shave]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 24 December 1995 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || ''[[Hartbeat|The Art Box Bunch]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 29 December 1995 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || ''Wat's Pig'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1 June 1996 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || ''Owzat'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1997 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 27 || ''[[Stage Fright (animated film)|Stage Fright]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 19 November 1997 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 28 || ''[[Humdrum]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1998 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 29 || ''Al Dente'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1998 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || ''[[Minotaur and Little Nerkin]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1999 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 31 || ''The Non-Voters'' (for the BBC Election coverage) || style="text-align:right;"| 2004 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 32 || ''[[A Matter of Loaf and Death]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 25 December 2008 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 33 || ''Dot'' || style="text-align:right;"| 2010 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 34 || ''[[Gulp (short film)|Gulp]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 2011 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 35 || ''The Itch of The Golden Nit'' || style="text-align:right;"| 2011 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 36 || ''DC's World Funnest'' ("[[DC Nation Shorts]]") || style="text-align:right;"| 2012-2014 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 37 || ''[[Timmy Time#Episode list|Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 12 December 2011 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 38,|| ''[[Timmy Time#Episode list|Timmy time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 13 July 2012 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 39 || ''[[Jubilee Bunt-a-thon|Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 2 June 2012 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 40 || ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (film)#Home media|So You Want to Be a Pirate!]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 28 August 2012 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 41|| ''[[Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 27 August 2012 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 42 || ''[[Darkside (radio play)#Marketing|Darkside]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Aardman animates trailer to Radio 2 Pink Floyd play|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23768213|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=9 March 2015|date=20 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=AARDMAN TURN TO THE DARKSIDE FOR PINK FLOYD AND BBC RADIO 2|url=http://www.aardman.com/aardman-turn-to-the-darkside-for-pink-floyd-and-bbc-radio-2/|publisher=Aardman|accessdate=9 March 2015|date=20 August 2013}}</ref> || style="text-align:right;"| 20 August 2013 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 43|| ''[[Sphere (2013 film)|Sphere]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 2013 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 44|| ''Zombie Fairy''<ref>http://www.aardman.com/wiltshire-pupil-has-winning-storyboard-brought-to-life-by-aardman-and-intofilm/</ref> || style="text-align:right;"| 6 November 2014 |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 46 || ''Special Delivery''<ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/oscar-winning-feast-director-creating-798569</ref>|| style="text-align:right;"| 2015 |
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* ''[[Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song)#Music video|Sledgehammer]]'' (1986) |
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* ''[[Viva Forever]]'' (1998) |
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* ''[[Shaun the Sheep#Life.27s a treat|Life's A Treat]]'' (2007) |
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* ''[[Santa Claus Is Coming to Town]] ([[Justin Bieber]] Cover)'' (2011) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || ''[[Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song)#Music video|Sledgehammer]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1986 |
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* ''[[Shaun the Sheep Movie#Music|Life's A Treat (Rizzle Kicks Remix)]]'' (2015) |
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* ''[[Shaun the Sheep Movie#Music|Feels Like Summer]]'' (2015) |
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| style="text-align:center;"| 3 || ''[[Barefootin' (song)|Barefootin]]'' || style="text-align:right;"| 1987 |
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=== Commercials === |
=== Commercials === |
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* [[Enterprise (computer)|Enterprise 64]] |
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* [[Electrolux]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0npO8I7bY</ref> |
* [[Electrolux]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0npO8I7bY</ref> |
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* Bristol Ageing Better (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Aardman Animations' creatures talk elderly loneliness|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-34379194|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 October 2015|date=29 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Bristol Ageing Better|title=Bristol Ageing Better Animation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK381zwvrrU|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=10 October 2015|date=28 September 2015}}</ref> |
* Bristol Ageing Better (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Aardman Animations' creatures talk elderly loneliness|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-34379194|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 October 2015|date=29 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Bristol Ageing Better|title=Bristol Ageing Better Animation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK381zwvrrU|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=10 October 2015|date=28 September 2015}}</ref> |
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===Apps=== |
===Apps=== |
Revision as of 19:02, 10 October 2015
Company type | Private company limited by shares |
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Industry | Animation |
Founded | 1972 |
Founder | Peter Lord David Sproxton |
Headquarters | Bristol, England , UK |
Key people | Peter Lord Nick Park David Sproxton |
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Website | www |
Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol. Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), it entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). Aardman films have made $969 million worldwide and average $161 million per film.[1] All of their stop motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films, with their debut, Chicken Run, being their top-grossing film[1] as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.[2]
History
1972–1996
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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. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On. After creating a segment called "Greeblies" (1975) using clay animation, became what was the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks. However, these two shorts were not actual Aardman productions. Aardman also created the title sequence for The Great Egg Race[3] and supplied animation for the multiple award winning music video of Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer".[4] They produced the music video for the song "My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone in 1987.
Later Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4 including the Conversation Pieces series. These five shorts worked in the same area as the Animated Conversations pieces, but were more sophisticated. Lord and Sproxton began hiring more animators at this point; three of the newcomers made their directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. Of the five Lip Synch shorts two were directed by Peter Lord, one by Barry Purves, one by Richard Goleszowski and one by Nick Park.
Park's short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to win an Oscar. Park also developed the clay modelled shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace and Gromit, a comical pair of friends: Wallace being a naive English inventor with a love of cheese, and Gromit his best friend, the intelligent but silent dog. These films include A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), the latter two winning Academy Awards.
1997–2006
In December 1997, Aardman and DreamWorks (later DreamWorks Animation) announced that their companies were teaming up to co-finance and distribute Chicken Run, Aardman's first feature film, which had already been in pre-production for a year.[5] On 27 October 1999, Aardman and DreamWorks signed a $250 million[6] deal to make an additional four films that were estimated to be completed during the next 12 years.[7] With the deal was also announced the first project, titled The Tortoise and the Hare. Intended to be based on Aesop's fable and directed by Richard Goleszowski,[8] it was put on hold two years later because of script issues.[9] On 23 June 2000, Chicken Run was released to a great critical and financial success. In 2005, after ten years of absence, Wallace and Gromit returned in Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Next year followed Flushed Away, Aardman's first computer-animated feature.
On 1 October 2006, right before the release of Flushed Away, The New York Times reported that due to creative differences DreamWorks Animation and Aardman would not be extending their contract.[10] The deal was officially terminated on 30 January 2007.[11] According to an Aardman spokesperson: "The business model of DreamWorks no longer suits Aardman and vice versa. But the split couldn't have been more amicable."[11] Unofficial reasons for departure were weak performances of the last two movies, for which DreamWorks had to take writedowns,[11] and citing the article, "Aardman executives chafed at the creative control DreamWorks tried to exert, particularly with Flushed Away..."[10] The studio had another film in development, Crood Awakening (now The Croods), which had been announced in 2005, with John Cleese co-writing the screenplay.[12] With the end of the partnership, the film's rights reverted to DreamWorks.[11]
Meanwhile, on 10 October 2005, a serious fire at a storage facility used by Aardman and other Bristol-based companies destroyed over 30 years of awards collected by the company as well as props, models, and scenery often built by the Bristol-based Cod Steaks. This warehouse was used for storage of past projects and so did not prevent the production of their current projects at the time. In addition, the company's library of finished films was stored elsewhere and was undamaged. An electrical fault was determined to be the cause of the blaze.[13] Referring to the 2004 South Asia earthquake and tsunami, Park was quoted as saying, "Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."[14]
From 2006–2007, the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, had an exhibit featuring the works of Aardman Studios. Sproxton and Lord visited the exhibit in May 2006 and met with animator Hayao Miyazaki during the visit.[15] Miyazaki has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works.[16]
2007–present
In April 2007, Aardman signed[17] and in 2010 renewed[18] a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to finance, co-produce and distribute feature films. The next year, Aardman released a new Wallace and Gromit short film, called A Matter of Loaf and Death. The first film made in partnership with Sony was computer-animated Arthur Christmas (2011), which is Aardman's first 3-D feature film. 2012 was the release of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits), Aardman's first 3-D stop-motion film and Peter Lord's first film as a director since Chicken Run. Additional two films were announced in June 2007: The Cat Burglars, a stop-motion directed by Steve Box, about cats that steal milk, and their plans to pull off 'the great milk float robbery'; and an untitled Nick Park project.[19]
Aardman is also known to provide generous resources and training to young animators by providing awards at various animation festivals. For example, The Aardman Award at the UK's Animex Festival in Teesside provides world class story consultation to a promising young animator, for their next film.[20]
In 2008, Aardman joined with Channel 4 and Lupus Films to launch a user-generated content animation portal called 4mations.[21]
They also designed the BBC One Christmas Idents for that year, which featured Wallace and Gromit to tie in with the showing of the new Wallace and Gromit film called A Matter of Loaf and Death on Christmas Day at 8:30pm.
In April 2008, Aardman launched the Aardman YouTube channel, which is a YouTube Partner channel featuring the entire Creature Comforts TV series, the Morph series, Cracking Contraptions and clips from the Wallace and Gromit films.[22]
From December 2008, Aardman also started posting various flash games on Newgrounds, the majority of which are based on Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.[23]
In 2009, Nintendo announced that Aardman would make twelve short films using only Flipnote Studio from Nintendo DSi. The films were posted on Flipnote's Hatena web service provider. The first film was called The Sandwich Twins and was released on 16 September 2009. The remaining eleven films were released on a weekly basis until Christmas, and can also be downloaded using Hatena.[24]
In October 2013, Peter Lord (co-founder of Aardman Animations) created a fund raising project on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The campaign has a target of £75,000 which will be used to fund 12 new one-minute episodes of Morph. Lord is hoping to start production in January 2014 using the original stop-frame animation. Backers of the project will receive a variety of rewards, including early access to the new animations and a small box of clay used in the production, depending on the individual's level of funding.[25][26]
In 2015, the company bought a majority share in New York-based animation studio Nathan Love,[27] announcing the merger with a short film called ANL.[28]
Company name
The company name is taken from one of its early characters, a superhero created for Vision On in 1972[citation needed]. Unlike the claymation productions that the company are famous for, Aardman was cel-animated[citation needed]. The name derives from the Dutch phrase "aard man" meaning Nature Man, when joined together, "aardman" becomes "Earthman" more commonly translated to: "goblin"[citation needed]. However, co-founder David Sproxton has claimed that the name was a result of being unable to "find another word with more A's in it than 'aardvark'" as schoolboys.[29]
Non-Aardman productions by Aardman directors
A number of Aardman directors have worked at other studios, taking the distinctive Aardman style with them.
Aardman's Steve Box directed the animated music video for the Spice Girls' final single as a five-piece, "Viva Forever". Widely regarded as the Spice Girls' most critically acclaimed song, the video took over 5 months to produce, considerably longer than the group's box office hit movie, Spice World. Barry Purves, director of the Aardman short Next, also directed Hamilton Mattress for Harvest Films. The film, a half-hour special that premiered on Christmas Day 2001, was produced by Chris Moll, producer of the Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers. The models were provided by Mackinnon & Saunders, a firm that did the same for Bob the Builder and Corpse Bride.
Similarly, Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire, a BBC Bristol/Comic Relief production, was directed by Richard Goleszowski, creator of Rex the Runt. Its sequel, Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe, was directed by Peter Peake, whose directorial credits for Aardman include Pib and Pog and Humdrum.
Aardman alumni also produced many of the claymation shorts used in the 1986–1990 American television series Pee-wee's Playhouse.[30][31]
Filmography
Feature films
# | Title | Year | Budget | Gross | RT | In partnership with |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chicken Run | 2000 | $45 million | $224.8 million | 97% | DreamWorks Animation |
2 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | $30 million | $192.6 million | 95% | |
3 | Flushed Away | 2006 | $149 million | $178.1 million | 72% | |
4 | Arthur Christmas | 2011 | $100 million | $147.2 million | 92% | Sony Pictures Animation |
5 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | 2012 | $55 million | $123.1 million | 87% | |
6 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | 2015 | $25 million | $100.8 million | 99% | StudioCanal |
7 | Early Man[32] | 2018 | $50 million | — | — | |
8 | Shaun the Sheep Movie 2[33] | — | — | — | — |
Television series/series of shorts
# | Title | Premiere date | End date | Network |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Great Egg Race (opening titles) | 1979 | 1986 | BBC |
2 | The Amazing Adventures of Morph | 13 October 1980 | 1981 | BBC |
3 | Round the Bend (segments) | 6 January 1989 | 1 July 1991 | ITV |
4 | The Morph Files | 1 July 1995 | 23 September 1995 | BBC |
5 | Rex the Runt | 21 December 1998 | 16 December 2001 | BBC Two |
6 | Angry Kid | 1999 | 2007 | BBC Four |
7 | Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | 15 October 2002 | Christmas 2002 | BBC One |
8 | The Presentators | 2003 | 2004 | Nickelodeon |
9 | Creature Comforts | 1 October 2003 | 18 June 2007 | ITV CBS Animal Planet |
10 | Planet Sketch | 2005 | 2010 | CITV Teletoon |
11 | Purple and Brown | 2006 | 2007 | Nickelodeon |
12 | Pib and Pog | 2006 | 2006 | |
13 | Shaun the Sheep | 5 March 2007 | present | CBBC |
14 | Creature Comforts America [34] | 4 June 2007 | 18 June 2007 | CBS |
15 | Chop Socky Chooks | 17 March 2008 | 28 November 2008 | Cartoon Network |
16 | A Town Called Panic | January 2009 | January 2009 | Nickelodeon |
17 | Timmy Time | 6 April 2009 | 13 July 2012 | Cbeebies |
18 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention | 3 November 2010 | 8 December 2010 | BBC |
19 | Canimals[35][36] | 9 June 2011 | present | BRB Internacional |
20 | Ploo[37] | TBA | TBA | TBA |
21 | DC Nation Shorts[38] | 11 November 2011 | 27 July 2014 | Cartoon Network |
22 | Shaun the Sheep 3D[39] | 7 March 2012 | 13 June 2012 | Nintendo Video |
23 | Shaun The Sheep Championsheeps[40] | 2 July 2012 | 13 July 2012 | CBBC |
24 | Brand new Morph [41] | 4 July 2014 | present | YouTube, CBBC |
25 | Angry Kid Revival[42] | 3 July 2015 | Present | YouTube |
Short films
- Animated Conversations: Down and Out (1977)
- Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl (1978)
- Conversation Pieces: On Probation (1983)
- Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch (1983
- Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days (1983)
- Conversation Pieces: Early Bird (1983)
- Conversation Pieces: Late Edition (1983)
- Sweet Disaster: Babylon (1986)
- Going Equipped (1987)
- A Grand Day Out (1989)
- Creature Comforts (1989)
- War Story (1989)
- Ident (1989)
- Next (1989)
- Adam (1991)
- Rex the Runt: North by North Pole (1993)
- Loves Me, Loves Me Not (1993)
- Not Without My Handbag (1993)
- The Wrong Trousers (1993)
- Pib and Pog (1993)
- Pop (1993)
- Rex the Runt: How the Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1993)
- A Close Shave (1995)
- The Art Box Bunch (1995)
- Wat's Pig (1996)
- Owzat (1997)
- Stage Fright (1997)
- Humdrum (1998)
- Al Dente (1998)
- Minotaur and Little Nerkin (1999)
- The Non-Voters (for the BBC Election coverage) (2004)
- A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
- Dot (2010)
- Gulp (2011)
- The Itch of The Golden Nit (2011)
- DC's World Funnest ("DC Nation Shorts") (2012-2014)
- Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise (2011)
- Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue (2012)
- Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012)
- So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012)
- Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels (2012)
- Darkside[43][44] (2013)
- Sphere (2013)
- Zombie Fairy[45] (2014)
- Special Delivery[46] (2015)
- Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015)
Music videos
- Sledgehammer (1986)
- My Baby Just Cares for Me (1987)
- Barefootin (1987)
- Viva Forever (1998)
- Life's A Treat (2007)
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Justin Bieber Cover) (2011)
- Life's A Treat (Rizzle Kicks Remix) (2015)
- Feels Like Summer (2015)
Commercials
- Lurpak
- Enterprise 64
- Cuprinol Enhance
- Cadbury Creme Egg
- Cadbury's Crunchie
- Kellogg's Rice Krispies
- Lyle's Golden Syrup
- Weetos
- BBC Two Christmas IDs (1995)
- Walkers Potato Crisps and Snacks
- Quavers (1996)
- Chevron Cars
- Dairylea
- Lipton
- Serta Counting Sheep
- BBC One Christmas IDs (2001, 2008)
- Polo
- British Telecom
- BBC Three idents (2003–2008)
- E4 Itchy Dog (2003)
- Jacob's Crackers
- Kellogg's Fruit Twistables
- Hubba Bubba
- PG Tips (2003-2005)
- Npower
- Watch idents (2009)
- National Accident Helpline featuring Underdog (2009)
- Hotels.com (2009)[47]
- VisitEngland
- McDonald's Happy Meal (2015)
- Bloo[48]
- British Gas[48]
- Electrolux[49]
- Bristol Ageing Better (2015)[50][51]
Apps
- Wizards vs Aliens: The Eye of Bashtarr (2013)[52]
- Escargot Escape Artistes (2015)[53]
Books
- Tristan Davies, Nick Park, Nick Newman (1997); Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper. Adler's Foreign Books. ISBN 978-0-8417-2026-8
- Peter Lord; Brian Sibley (1998). Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation. Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN 978-0-500-28168-0
- Tristan Davies; Nick Newman (1998). Wallace & Gromit in Anoraknophobia. Adler's Foreign Books. ISBN 978-0-8417-2031-2
- Tristan Davies; Nick Newman (1999). Wallace & Gromit: Crackers in Space. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-71289-4
- Andy Lane (2003). Creating Creature Comforts. Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7522-1564-8
- Andy Lane (2004). The World of Wallace & Gromit. Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7522-1558-7
- Andy Lane; Paul Simpson (2005). The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Titan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84576-136-3
See also
- List of animated feature films
- List of stop-motion films
- DreamWorks Animation
- Sony Pictures Animation
- Gromit Unleashed
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