Aardman animations movie#
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015): Exactly What It Says on the Tin and their first collaboration with European company StudioCanal.
Released internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Aardman animations series#
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012): Their second and last with SPA, based on the first in a series of books by Gideon Defoe, starring Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, BRIAN BLESSED, Jeremy Piven, and also Staunton.Arthur Christmas (2011): Their second CGI feature and first collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation, starring James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, among others.Flushed Away (2006): Their first CGI feature, and the last in cooperation with DreamWorks.The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005): The Movie of Wallace & Gromit and the second DreamWorks collab.Distributed by French studio Pathé in Europe. Chicken Run (2000): The studio's first full-length feature, and the first of three with DreamWorks Animation.They have also done the English dubs for the Belgian-produced A Town Called Panic. As of this writing, their latest partner is Netflix, with an exclusive new series of Shaun the Sheep specials, a sequel to Chicken Run and a new Wallace & Gromit film, amongst other projects, being produced as part of the deal. Their first and most successful three were made in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation, followed by two films with Sony Pictures Animation, a split due to diminishing returns, then three with StudioCanal followed by another split due to diminishing returns. Park not only earned the studio its first Academy Award with Creature Comforts (which was nominated against A Grand Day Out), but the characters from his thesis would become the first of the studio's major franchise, Wallace & Gromit, for which they would later produce three more shorts and a feature film, earning several more Oscars in the process.Īardman would break into feature films at the dawn of the 21st century and have worked with a rotating cast of distributors. Around this time, they hired a fresh-faced film school student named Nick Park to work for them on Peter Gabriel's famed " Sledgehammer" video while he finished his thesis film, A Grand Day Out. In the '80s, they began by producing The Amazing Adventures of Morph, a claymation series of children's shorts.
Aardman animations tv#
Several other films commissioned by The BBC, as well as hugely popular TV ads, would follow throughout the decades. When it came time to deposit their cheque for the film, they realized they needed to create a new bank account for it, which became the Aardman Animation account. note For Americans, a "hard man" is British English for a macho bloke type. The studio's name comes from the title of Sproxton and Lord's first traditionally-animated short, "The Aardman", about a superhero who evoked stereotypical western English machoism, i.e. It began, as most successes have, in a garage. Martin Freeman from A Grand Night In: The Story of AardmanĪardman Animations is a prolific Academy Award winning British animation and multimedia studio founded by David Sproxton and Peter Lord in 1975, primarily known for their distinct brand of Stop Motion Animation and British sense of humour.
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