Aardman Animations

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. The company is based in Bristol and is the centre of a sizeable animation and film special effects industry in the City. Because of the company's base characters with faint west country accents are also a feature.

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British - Stop motion - Peter Lord - David Sproxton - 1972 - Nick Park - 1986 - Wallace and Gromit - Bristol - Animation - Special effects

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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.

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Vision On - Deaf - Morph - Take Hart

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In 1983, Aardman produced a series of short films for Channel 4 that featured audio recordings from real world situations such as a local radio DJ that were then matched to an absurd animated scenario. This same technique was the basis for Creature Comforts.

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1983 - Channel 4 - Creature Comforts

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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).

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Peter Gabriel - Pixilation

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

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