“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 ...

In a landmark cultural moment for 2026, London’s Lightroom has announced Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun ...

After splurging to grab all the clay from a closing factory, the studio's supply is reaching its end as it works on a new Wallace & Gromit movie. Reading time 2 minutes Aardman Animations has been ...

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 ...

Reflecting on the genre-bending success of his 1989 college project A Grand Day Out, filmmaker Nick Park claimed that the inspiration was relatively simple. “I had this idea about an English guy who ...

They're one of Britain's most beloved double acts. And now Wallace & Gromit are back with a brand new Christmas animation. The six-minute animation features the duo decorating their Christmas trees ...

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 ...

Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run studio Aardman Animations is running out of clay. Really. According to The Telegraph, the British animation studio was facing a crisis. Aardman uses a particular brand ...

Aardman and Animation Toolkit have partnered to create an ‘Armature Kit’ aimed at supporting stop-motion animators. Created by Animation Toolkit, the Aardman Animation Kit is designed to assist ...