“It was really kind of a freak idea,” recalls Lord, who directed what became “Chicken Run,” the first of Aardman’s six features. This was shortly before Pixar launched the CG revolution with “Toy ...

With more than 50 years of clay animation, Aardman unveiled a glimpse of a bright future this year at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, which opens June 21. The studio’s legendary trio, co-founders ...

Wallace & Gromit are part of Aardman in Concert at York Barbican is on August 29, 2026 - marking 50 years of the British ...

Aardman (or Aardman Animation) was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972. They had wanted to direct an animated feature, but instead wound up working on shorter form content for the BBC and ...

For Nick Park, it always begins with a drawing. On “Chicken Run” (2000), it was a chicken digging its way out of a coop with a shovel, which became a riff on “The Great Escape,” and on his latest, ...

Show features characters and sets from likes of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and celebrates roots in city ...

As a Brit on the internet, I’m aware of a few stereotypes that follow British culture — and how hard I personally lean into those tickboxes. We like tea (peach only for me, but I digress), it rains ...

Ahead of its release on Netflix January 3, io9 visited the set of Vengeance Most Fowl to see why now is Aardman's time to return to Wallace and Gromit. Reading time 10 minutes For as potent as a ...