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Company type | Private |
Industry | Animation |
Founded | 1972 |
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Headquarters | Gas Ferry Road, , England |
Number of locations | 5 |
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Website | aardman |
Aardman Animations Limited is a British animation studio based in Bristol. It is known for films and television series made using stop-motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $135.6 million per film.[2]
Aardman's films have been consistently very well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, Chicken Run, being their top-grossing film,[3] as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.[4] A sequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, was released in 2023.[5]
Impressively, Chicken Run is still the highest grossing stop motion animated movie of all time.