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Aardman Animation

Aardman Animations is a British stop motion animation studio founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972. Nick Park joined Aardman in 1986, bringing his creations Wallace and Gromit with him.

Aardman's early work was in creating inserts for Vision On, a television series aimed at deaf children. Lord and Sproxton went on to create the character of Morph for the children's art programme Take Hart, who went on to have a series of his own.

Aardman also made the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", in which Gabriel himself was used as a stop-motion model (a process called pixilation, which was also used in the Aardman series Angry Kid, featuring an actor wearing a mask, and in the video for "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads which was not made by Aardman).

Three Aardman films, all directed by Nick Park, have won Oscars.

Aardman productions

Videos

  • Sledgehammer for Peter Gabriel

Commercials

  • add list of commercials here
  • Serta mattress commercials featuring the out-of-work counting sheep
  • Electricity commercials based on "Creature Comforts"
  • Lurpak Butter commercials, featuring a little butter man named Douglas and the voice of Penelope Keith (who is continually annoyed by his attempts to play The Flight of the Bumble Bee on his trombone)

TV series

Short films

Feature films

Miscellaneous

  • Links for BBC Three featuring little blob people, voiced in the style of "Creature Comforts"

External links

Referenced By

Animated | Animated cartoon | Animated film | Animated motion picture | Animated movies | Animation | Chicken Run | Gromit | List Of Music Videos | Peter Gabriel | Stop-motion | Stop-motion animation | Stop motion | Stop motion animation | Wallace & Gromit | Wallace & Gromits Cracking Contraptions | Wallace and Gromit

 

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