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 ...
“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 ...
While countless filmmakers have strived and failed to recapture the magic and inexplicable eeriness of classic monster movies – as much the Universal canon as Jacques Tourneur’s line of wild horror ...
A master of disguise, an evil genius with plenty of tricks up his wings and a relentless pursuer of retribution, Feathers McGraw nests among cinema’s great villains without ever having crooned a ...
Ginger and Rocky of “Chicken Run” fame and the eponymous Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit represent the pinnacle of claymation achievement. All created from scratch by British animation studio ...
Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, is facing a clay shortage. The studio’s lack of clay for its claymation projects was first reported in a story in The ...
Aardman co-founder Peter Lord was at FMX in Stuttgart last week dispensing wisdom about 40 years of stop-motion animation and storytelling, from Ray Harryhausen to Nick Park. Aardman co-founder Peter ...
Clockwise from top left: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Arthur Christmas, and Chicken Run. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Netflix, DreamWorks, ...
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