Aardman Animations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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- motionclay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1. Owzat (1. 99. 7), it entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2. Aardman films have made $9. 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[edit]1. Aardman Animations' headquarters in Bristol. Aardman was founded in 1. Party Themes and Party Ideas. Birthstones Birthstones are precious or semi-precious gemstones that are associated with each month. Wallace& Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British stop-motion animated comedy. (12 customer reviews) Official and Licensed Wallace and Gromit Oven Gloves Featuring imagery of Wallace, Gromit - With Header Card. Limited availability and HEAVILY. Numeracy: Functional Maths, General numeracy / maths, Money Free tags: Family learning, Christmas Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years. 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" (1. 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 1. 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 (1. The Wrong Trousers (1. A Close Shave (1. Academy Awards. 1. In December 1. 99. Aardman and Dream. Works (later Dream. Works 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 2. October 1. 99. 9, Aardman and Dream. Works signed a $2. 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 2. June 2. 00. 0, Chicken Run was released to a great critical and financial success. In 2. 00. 5, 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 2. 00. Flushed Away, The New York Times reported that due to creative differences Dream. Works Animation and Aardman would not be extending their contract.[1. The deal was officially terminated on 3. January 2. 00. 7.[1. According to an Aardman spokesperson: "The business model of Dream. Works no longer suits Aardman and vice versa. But the split couldn't have been more amicable."[1. Unofficial reasons for departure were weak performances of the last two movies, for which Dream. Works had to take writedowns,[1. Aardman executives chafed at the creative control Dream. Works tried to exert, particularly with Flushed Away.."[1. The studio had another film in development, Crood Awakening (now The Croods), which had been announced in 2. John Cleese co- writing the screenplay.[1. With the end of the partnership, the film's rights reverted to Dream. Works.[1. 1]Meanwhile, on 1. October 2. 00. 5, a serious fire at a storage facility used by Aardman and other Bristol- based companies destroyed over 3. 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.[1. Referring to the 2. 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."[1. From 2. 00. 6–2. Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, had an exhibit featuring the works of Aardman Studios. Sproxton and Lord visited the exhibit in May 2. Hayao Miyazaki during the visit.[1. Miyazaki has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works.[1. In April 2. 00. 7, Aardman signed[1. 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 (2. Aardman's first 3- D feature film. 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 2. 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.[1. 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.[2. In 2. 00. 8, Aardman joined with Channel 4 and Lupus Films to launch a user- generated content animation portal called 4mations.[2. 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: 3. In April 2. 00. 8, Aardman launched the Aardman You. Tube channel, which is a You. Tube Partner channel featuring the entire Creature Comforts TV series, the Morph series, Cracking Contraptions and clips from the Wallace and Gromit films.[2. From December 2. 00. Aardman also started posting various flash games on Newgrounds, the majority of which are based on Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.[2. In 2. 00. 9, 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 1. September 2. 00. 9. The remaining eleven films were released on a weekly basis until Christmas, and can also be downloaded using Hatena.[2. In October 2. 01. Peter Lord (co- founder of Aardman Animations) created a fund raising project on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The campaign has a target of £7. Morph. Lord is hoping to start production in January 2. 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.[2. In 2. 01. 5, the company bought a majority share in New York- based animation studio Nathan Love,[2. Introducing: Aardman Nathan Love in September 2. Company name[edit]The company name is taken from one of its early characters, a superhero created for Vision On in 1. Unlike the claymation productions that the company are famous for, Aardman was cel- animated.[3. The name derives from the Dutch phrase "aard man" meaning Nature Man, when joined together, "aardman" becomes "Earthman" more commonly translated to: "goblin".[3. 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.[3. Non- Aardman productions by Aardman directors[edit]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 2. Chris Moll, producer of the Wallace and Gromitshort 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 1. American television series Pee- wee's Playhouse.[3. Filmography[edit]Feature films[edit]Television series/series of shorts[edit]Short films[edit]Music videos[edit]Commercials[edit]This is a selected list of commercials produced by Aaardman. By 2. 00. 0, the studio had produced over 1.
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