Aardman Animations is a British animation studio that produces films using stop motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. The company was founded on 12 April, 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton.
After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), it entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006).
Films produced by Aardman Animations have made $973.2 million worldwide and average $163 million per film. All of their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films in history, with their debut, Chicken Run (2000), being their top-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
Aardman Animations' latest film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to Chicken Run, is set for release on 15 December 2023 on Netflix.