Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations is a British-American film company that produces films. The company was founded on 12 April, 1972 by Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Nick Park.

Aardman Animations is known for films produced using stop motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring plasticine characters such as the Wallace and Gromit franchise. 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, with their debut, Chicken Run (2000), being their top-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.