Aardman Animations Aardman Animations Limited (also known as Aardman Studios, simply Aardman or Aardman Animation and stylised as AARDMAN as of 2022) is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films made using stop-motion and clay ani ...

is an animation studio in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

that produces

stop motion Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...

and computer-animated features, shorts, TV series and adverts.

Filmography

Feature films

Released films

Note: Rights to the Aardman films produced with DreamWorks Animation are now owned by

Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...

, following

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's purchase of DreamWorks in 2016.

Upcoming films

TV Shows

Short films

* ''

Vision On ''Vision On'' was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for children with hearing impairment. Concept and production ''Vision On'' was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ur ...

'' (1972–76) * '' Aard-Man'' (1972–73) * '' Greeblies'' (1974–75) * ''

Take Hart ''Take Hart'' is a British children's television programme about art, presented by Tony Hart. It took over from ''Vision On'', and ran from 1977 until 1983. The programme featured Hart and the animated Plasticine character Morph, and other cha ...

'' (1977–82) * '' Animated Conversations: Down and Out'' (1977) * '' Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl'' (1978) * '' Conversation Pieces: On Probation'' (1983) * '' Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch'' (1983) * '' Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days'' (1983) * '' Conversation Pieces: Early Bird'' (1983) * '' Conversation Pieces: Late Edition'' (1983) * ''

Hartbeat ''Hartbeat'' is a Children's BBC television arts programme presented by Tony Hart. It was broadcast between 1984 and 1993. The series was a follow on from ''Take Hart'' and taught children how to design art features and use everyday items to ma ...

'' (1984–93) * '' Sweet Disaster: Babylon'' (1986) * '' Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out'' (1989) * ''

Creature Comforts ''Creature Comforts'' is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about th ...

'' (1989) * '' War Story'' (1989) * '' Going Equipped'' (1990) * ''Ident'' (1990) * ''

Next Next may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare * ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage * '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film Lit ...

'' (1990) * '' Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct'' (1991) * '' Rex the Runt: Dreams'' (1991) * '' Adam'' (1992) * ''Loves Me, Loves Me Not'' (1993) * '' Not Without My Handbag'' (1993) * '' Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers'' (1993) * '' Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave'' (1995) * '' The Art Box Bunch'' (1995) * '' Rex the Runt: North by North Pole'' (1996) * ''Pop'' (1996) * '' Wat's Pig'' (1996) * ''

Owzat ''Owzat'' is a 1997 CGI short film created by Aardman Animations. Plot IMDb explains: "It's Ghosts vs. Skeletons one night in a churchyard cricket match. At the outset, it appears that the Ghosts' bowler will best all of the Skeleton's batsmen. ...

'' (1997) * ''

Stage Fright Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, real or imagined, whether actually or potentially (for example, when perf ...

'' (1997) * ''Al Dente'' (1998) * '' Smart Hart'' (1999-2000) * ''

Humdrum ''Humdrum'' is a 1998 British animated comedy short film directed by Peter Peake. It was released in 1998 and produced by Aardman Animations and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film and a BAFTA nomination in the sam ...

'' (1999) * '' Minotaur and Little Nerkin'' (1999) * ''The Deadline'' (2001) * ''Len's Lens'' (2002) * ''The Non-Voters'' (for the BBC Election coverage) (2004) * ''The Adventures of Jeffrey'' (2005) * '' Angry Kid: Who do you think you are?'' (2004) * ''

The Pearce Sisters ''The Pearce Sisters'' is a 2007 short film created by Aardman Animations. Production Plot Cast * Len Gray * Dan Williamson Critical reception Awards and nominations This is a list of awards and nominations of The Pearce Sisters.http ...

'' (2007) * '' Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death'' (2008) * '' Gulp'' (2011) * ''The Itch of The Golden Nit'' (2011) * ''Pythagasaurus'' (2011) * ''Fly'' (2011) * ''DC's World Funnest'' ("

DC Nation Shorts ''DC Nation Shorts'' are animated shorts featuring characters from DC Comics that aired in a series on Cartoon Network on Saturdays at 10/9c. Production On March 3, 2012, the shorts premiered as part of the ''DC Nation'' block, produced by Warn ...

") (2012–2014) * '' Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise'' (2011) * '' Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue'' (2012) * '' Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon'' (2012) * '' The Pirates! So You Want to Be a Pirate!'' (2012) * '' Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels'' (2012) * '' Darkside'' (2013) * ''

Sphere A sphere () is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three-dimensional space.. That given point is th ...

'' (2013) * ''Zombie Fairy'' (2014) * ''Ray's Big Idea'' (2014) * ''Special Delivery'' (2015) * ''Full ANL'' (2015) * '' Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas'' (2015) * ''Aardman Nathan Love'' (2015) * ''Mac'' (2016) * ''

NSPCC The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity. History Victorian era On a trip to New York in 1881, Liverpudlian businessman Thomas Agnew was inspired by a visit to the New Yor ...

'' (2016) * ''Visualise This'' (2017) * '' Robin Robin'' (2021) * ''Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas'' (2021)

Music videos

* " Sledgehammer" (1986) * " My Baby Just Cares for Me" (1987) * " Barefootin" (1987) * " In Your Wildest Dreams" (1996) * "

Viva Forever "Viva Forever" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, '' Spiceworld'' (1997). The song was co-written by the group with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, while production was handled by the latter two ...

" (1998) * "

Gridlock Gridlock is a form of traffic congestion where "continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill". The term originates from a situation possible in a gr ...

" (1999) * " Life's A Treat" (2007) * "

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a Christmas song featuring Santa Claus written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie. The earliest known recorded version of the song was by banjoist Harry Reser and his band on October 24, 1934. It was then ...

(

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Cover)" (2011) * " Life's A Treat (Rizzle Kicks Remix)" (2015) * " Feels Like Summer" (2015) * "OFFF Barcelona 2016 Main Titles" (2017) * "

Daddy A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. An adoptive fathe ...

" (2019)

Commercials

This is a selected list of commercials produced by Aardman. By 2000, the studio had produced over 100 commercials, at a rate of 15–20 spots per year. In the year 2009 alone, the studio produced 106 commercials. *

Lurpak Lurpak is a Danish brand of butter owned by Arla Foods. It is sold in over 75 countries worldwide, and is known for its distinctive silver packaging. Lurpak came into existence in October 1901 after a combination of several Danish dairy farmers d ...

(1986) *

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

(1987) *

Jordans (company) Jordans is a British manufacturer of breakfast cereals and cereal bars founded in 1855. It is based at Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. History Holme Mills is on Langford Road in Biggleswade, situated next to the River Ivel. A mill w ...

(1987) *

Domestos Domestos is a British brand of household cleaning range which contains bleach (primarily sodium hypochlorite NaOCl). It is manufactured by Unilever. Domestos (and Chlorox, essentially a 10–25% solution of sodium hypochlorite) contains 100,00 ...

(1987) * Creature comforts for the Electricity Board's "Heat Electric" campaign(1990) * Enterprise 64 *

Cadbury Creme Egg A Cadbury Creme Egg is a chocolate confection produced in the shape of an egg, originating from the British chocolatier Fry's in 1963 before being renamed by Cadbury in 1971. The product consists of a thick chocolate shell containing an enzym ...

* Cadbury's Crunchie *

Kellogg's Rice Krispies Rice Krispies (known as Rice Bubbles in Australia and New Zealand) is a breakfast cereal, marketed by Kellogg's in 1927 and released to the public in 1928. Rice Krispies are made of crisped rice (rice and sugar paste that is formed into r ...

* Lyle's Golden Syrup * Weetos *

Smarties Smarties are colour-varied sugar-coated chocolate confectionery. They have been manufactured since 1937, originally by H.I. Rowntree & Company in the United Kingdom, and now by Nestlé. Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about ...

"Smartiepants" (1995) * Walkers Potato Crisps and Snacks *

Quavers Quavers are a deep-fried potato-based British snack food. Launched in the UK in 1968, they were originally made by Smith's. Since 1997 they have been produced by Walkers. The name comes from the musical note, quaver. History Quavers were lau ...

(1996) *

Britannia Building Society The Britannia Building Society was founded as the Leek & Moorlands Building Society in Leek in 1856. It expanded steadily as a regional society until the late 1950s when it began a major expansion drive, partly through branch openings but also so ...

(1997) * Glico Pucchin Pudding (Japan, 1998, 2000) *

Chevron Cars The Chevron Cars are anthropomorphic vehicles who were part of an advertising campaign of the Chevron Corporation consisting of television spots, print ads, billboards, and toy cars available at Chevron retail locations. History Their debut in ...

* Dairylea * Lipton * Serta Counting Sheep * Pringles * Burger King *

Polo Mints Polo is a brand of breath mint whose defining feature is the hole in the middle. The peppermint flavoured Polo was first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1948, by employee John Bargewell at the Rowntree's Factory, York, and a range of flavour ...

* British Telecom * Tennent's Lager * Lego *

Jacob's Cream Crackers Jacob's is a brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The brand name is owned by the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group, part of Valeo Foods, which produces snacks for the Irish market. ...

* Kellogg's Fruit Twistables *

Hubba Bubba Hubba Bubba is a brand of bubble gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated. Introduced in the United States in 1979, the bubble gum got its name from the phrase "Hubba Hubba", which some military personnel in W ...

* PG Tips "Moving-in Interview", "Cupboard" (2002–2005) *

Weetabix Weetabix is a breakfast cereal produced by Weetabix Limited in the United Kingdom. It comes in the form of palm-sized (approx. 9.5 cm × 5.0 cm or 4" × 2") wheat biscuits. Variants include organic and Weetabix Crispy Minis (bite-sized ...

* Npower (2009, 2011) *

National Accident Helpline National Accident Helpline is a UK-based personal injury company providing personal injury claims advice, service and support to consumers who have suffered a no-fault accident. National Accident Helpline is part of the NAHL Group PLC and is r ...

featuring

Underdog An underdog is a person or group in a competition, usually in sports and creative works, who is largely expected to lose. The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the favorite or top dog. In the case where an underdog wins, the ...

(2009) * Change4Life *

Hotels.com Hotels.com is a website for booking hotel rooms online and by telephone. The company has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,000 hotels in approximately 19,000 locations. Its inventory includes hotels and B&Bs, and some condos and oth ...

(2009) *

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

"Dot" (2010) *

VisitEngland VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England. Before 1999 it was known as the English Tourist Board and between 1999 and 2009 as the English Tourism Council. In 2003, it merged with the British Tourist Authority to form VisitBritain bef ...

(2013, 2015) *

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hambur ...

Happy Meal A Happy Meal is a kids' meal usually sold at the American fast food restaurant chain McDonald's since June 1979. A small toy or book is included with the food, both of which are usually contained in a red cardboard box with a yellow smiley fac ...

(2013) * Bloo *

Electrolux Electrolux AB () is a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm. It is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by units sold, after Whirlpool. Electrolux products sell under a variety ...

* Bristol Ageing Better (2015) *

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

"We Have a Plan" (2015) * What if...Santa Forgot" * Sinutab/Sudafed (2014, 2016) * Prevacid (2000) * Zantac (2013) *

DFS Furniture DFS (DFS Furniture plc, stylised as dfs, is a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland specialising in sofas and soft furnishings. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Northern Upholstery In 1969, aged 22, G ...

(2019) *short film "Turtle Journey" as a commercial for Greenpeace.(2020)

Idents

* BBC Two Christmas idents (1995) *

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...

Christmas idents (2001, 2008, 2021) *

BBC Three BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34-year-olds, covering all genres including animation, comedy, cur ...

idents (2003) *

CBBC CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...

idents (2007) *

Watch A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached b ...

idents (2009) *

BBC Two 'Curve' idents #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

(2018) *

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idents (2021)

Apps

Wizards vs Aliens ''Wizards vs Aliens'' is a British science fantasy television programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales and FremantleMedia Enterprises for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford. The series focuses on the exploits of 16-year-old wiz ...

: The Eye of Bashtarr (2013) * Escargot Escape Artistes (2015)

Crew

Upcoming films

Video games

Accolades

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

Annie Awards

Critic's Choice Awards

Kids' Choice Awards

Unproduced projects

References

External links

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Feature films

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Upcoming films

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Short films

Music videos

Commercials

Idents

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Crew

Upcoming films

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Accolades

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

Annie Awards

Critic's Choice Awards

Kids' Choice Awards

Unproduced projects

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