Aardman Animations is an animation studio in Bristol, England that produces stop motion and computer animation features, shorts, TV series and adverts.
Filmography Feature films Released films # Title Release date In partnership with Distributor Budget Gross Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic 1 Chicken Run DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks PicturesPathé $45 million $224.8 million 88 (34 reviews) 2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit DreamWorks Pictures $30 million $192.6 million 87 (38 reviews) 3 Flushed Away Paramount Pictures $149 million $178 million 74 (28 reviews) 4 Arthur Christmas Sony Pictures Animation Sony Pictures Releasing $100 million $147 million 69 (32 reviews) 5 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! $55 million $123 million 73 (31 reviews) 6 Shaun the Sheep Movie StudioCanal StudioCanal Lionsgate $25 million $110.6 million 81 (30 reviews) 7 Early Man $50 million $54.6 million 68 (39 reviews) 8 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon StudioCanalNetflix $25 million $47.8 million 79 (18 reviews) 9 Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Netflix Netflix N/A N/A 63 (30 reviews) 10 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl BBC<br/ >Netflix N/A N/A 83 (31 reviews) 11 Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom StudioCanal Sky GKIDS $30 million $7.3 million 80 (18 reviews)
Television Shows Premiere date Title Co-production(s) Network 1972–76 Vision OnN/A BBC 1977–82 Take Hart 1980–81 The Amazing Adventures of Morph 1982–85 The Great Egg Race 1984–93 Hartbeat 1989–91 Round the Bend ITV 1995 The Art Box Bunch BBC 1996 The Morph Files 1998–2005 Rex the Runt Egmont ImaginationEVA Entertainment BBC Two 1999–2000 Smart HartN/A BBC 1999–2007 Angry Kid Mr Morris Productions Channel 4BBC Three 2002–03 A Town Called Panic La PartiPic Pic André Nickelodeon 2002 Wallace & Gromit's Cracking ContraptionsN/A BBC One 2003–04 The Presentators Nickelodeon 2003–07 Creature Comforts ITV 2005–08 Planet Sketch Decode Entertainment CITV 2006–07 Purple and BrownN/A Nickelodeon 2006 Pib and Pog BBC 2007–present Shaun the Sheep Westdeutscher Rundfunk CBBC Netflix 2007–08 Chop Socky Chooks Decode Entertainment Cartoon NetworkTeletoon 2007 Creature Comforts America Gotham Group CBS 2009–12 Timmy TimeN/A CBeebies 2010 Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention BBC 2011–15 Canimals VoozClub Co., Ltd.BRB InternacionalScreen 21 EBSCITV 2011–14 DC Nation Shorts N/A Cartoon Network 2012 Shaun the Sheep 3D Nintendo Video Shaun The Sheep Championsheeps CBBC 2014–present Brand New Morph/The Epic Adventures of Morph YouTube Sky Kids 2015–19 Angry Kid Mr Morris Productions YouTube 2015–22 Golden MorphN/A 2015–16 Morph: The Lost Tapes 2016 Meet David Attenborough BBC One 2016–17 Counterfeit CatBleeding Cool Aardman And Disney Teaming Up For Counterfeit Cat Wildseed KidsTricon Kids & FamilyAtomic Cartoons Disney XDTeletoon 2022–present Lloyd of the Flies N/A CITVZDF The Very Small Creatures Sky Kids Sky Kids 2023–present Adventures of ArachnoFly N/A YouTube
Upcoming specials and shows Title Release date Notes Let's Go Timmy 2027 Co-production with the BBC Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd and Pichu Co-production with The Pokémon Company International Pingu TBA Co-production with Mattel Studios The Almost (Untold) Story of Danger Delilah Adaptation of Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters by Oliver Jeffers
Shorts + Title Release date Notes Down and Out 13 March 1979 first in the Animated Conversations series Confessions of a Foyer Girl 13 July 1978 second in the Animated Conversations series On Probation 1 November 1983 first in the Conversation Pieces spin of Animated Conversations series. Sales Pitch 31 October 1983 Second in the Conversation Pieces series. Palmy Days 1983 part of the Conversation Pieces series Early Bird Late Edition Babylon 4 May 1986 Part of Sweet Disaster series A Grand Day Out 4 November 1989 first in the Wallace & Gromit series. Creature Comforts 1989 part of the creature comforts series and the Lip Synch series.War Story 27 September 1989 N/AGoing Equipped 29 November 1990 part of the Lip Synch series how dinosaurs became extincthttp://www.annecy.org/about/archives/1993/official-selection/film-index:film-930710 1990 first in Rex the Runt series. Next: The Infinite Variety Show N/A Never Say Pink Furry Die dreamshttp://www.annecy.org/about/archives/1993/official-selection/film-index:film-930710 1991 second in rex the runt series. Adamhttps://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.2/articles/jacksonlord2.2.html 9 April 1992 N/A Loves Me, Loves Me Not 1993Not Without My Handbag The Wrong Trousers 26 December 1993 second in the Wallace and gromit series. Pib and Pong 7 January 1995 N/A A Close Shave 24 December 1995 Third in the Wallace and gromit series. North by North Pole 1996 Third in the Rex the runt series. Pop N/A Wat's Pig 10 April 1996 Owzat 1997 Stage Fright 19 November 1997 Al Dente 1998 Humdrum Minotaur and Little Nerkin 1999 The Deadline 2001 Len's Lens 2002 Vacation The Non-Voters 2004 the BBC Election coverage Who Do you Think are? http://www.annecy.org/about/archives/2005/award-winners/film-index:film-20050537 24 December 2004 Angry Kid short The Adventures of Jeffrey 2005 N/A Stuff vs. Stuff 2007 A Matter of Loaf and Death 25 December 2008 fourth in the Wallace and gromit series. Blind Date 2010 N/AThe Itch of The Golden Nit 2011 Pythagasaurus Fly Timmy's Christmas Surprise 12 December 2011 first short in the Timmy series Timmy's Seaside Rescue 13 July 2012 second short in the Timmy series. Jubilee Bunt-a-thon 2 June 2012 mini Wallace and Gormit short. So You Want to Be a Pirate! 13 August 2012 first and only short in The pirates! Series Musical Marvels 27 August 2012 Wallace & Gromit's concert. Darkside https://web.archive.org/web/20170803211827/http://www.aardman.com/aardman-turn-to-the-darkside-for-pink-floyd-and-bbc-radio-2/ https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23768213 2013 based on the Play. Sphere N/A Zombie Fairyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170701014054/http://www.aardman.com/wiltshire-pupil-has-winning-storyboard-brought-to-life-by-aardman-and-intofilm/ 2014 Ray's Big Ideahttps://web.archive.org/web/20140908230932/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/58th-bfi-london-film-festival-partnership-american-express The Farmer's Llamas 26 December 2015 first Shaun the Sheep short. Special Deliveryhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/oscar-winning-feast-director-creating-798569 2015 N/A Full ANLhttp://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/aardman-buys-majority-of-nathan-love-to-create-aardman-nathan-love-119724.htmlAardman Nathan Love Machttps://web.archive.org/web/20201127053925/https://www.aardman.com/aardman-and-caroline-bring-mac-to-life-for-macular-society/ 2016NSPCChttps://web.archive.org/web/20180829072200/https://kidsknowbest.co.uk/article/aardman_launch_latest_project_with_nspccVisualise Thishttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwtR6DvoCM 2017 BeeBalls Robin Robinhttps://news.newonnetflix.info/news/robin-robin-new-aardman-animation-is-heading-to-netflix-not-the-bbc-for-christmas-2020/ 24 November 2021 The Flight Before Christmashttps://news.newonnetflix.info/news/robin-robin-new-aardman-animation-is-heading-to-netflix-not-the-bbc-for-christmas-2020/ 2021 second short in the Shaun the Sheep series.I Am Your Motherhttps://www.aardman.com/latest-news/2023/february/star-wars-visions-volume-2-featuring-aardman/ 4 may, 2023 part of Star Wars: Visions volume 2.Over the Garden Wall 10th anniversary 3 November, 2024 part of Over the Garden Wall.https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1837884715979755669 Boop 2026 N/A
Music videos + Caption text Song Release date Artists Notes Sledgehammer https://www.skwigly.co.uk/100-greatest-animated-shorts-sledgehammer/ 1986 Peter Gabriel N/A My Baby Just Cares for Mehttp://www.aardman.com/about-us/podcasts/episode-8-music-videos/ 1987 N/A Barefootin' http://www.aardman.com/podcasts/ In Your Wildest Dreams 1996 Viva Foreverhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060116180535/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/530232/index.html 1997 Spice Girls OFFF Barcelona 2016 Main Titleshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7xvpG3cCc 2017 N/A Daddyhttps://www.billboard.com/music/pop/coldplay-daddy-champion-of-the-world-8544278/ 20 November 2019 Coldplay Love Can Healhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us5JFGeKRQo 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSuRIoayE8 n/A
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. Title Year Commissioned for Douglas 1985–2003Lurpak "Squash vs. Capri Sun" 1985 Capri Sun Ready Eddie 1986 Ready BrekChewits MonsterChewitsBig Bad Dom1987 Domestos "Wedding Cake" 1988HamletWooden Man1988–1992 Cuprinol "Float On" 1989 Cadbury Creme EggCreature Comforts for the Electricity Board's "Heat Electric" campaign1990 Electricity Board "That Friday Feeling" 1990–1994 Cadbury's Crunchie"Hoots Mon" 1993 Maynards Wine GumsPirates1994 Weetabix "Smartiepants"1995 Smarties Wallace & Gromit BBC 2 IntroductionsBBC 2The Quaverheads1996 Quavers Snap, Crackle and Pop 1996–2003 Kellogg's Rice KrispiesNew Neighbors1996Walkers French Fries Dancing Reindeer1997 GuinnessWallace and Gromit1998–2000 Glico Pucchin Pudding (Japan) "Pib and Pog" 1999 Dairylea Counting SheepTBD SertaFries Burger KingBurger King Chicken Run Movie Tie-In Ads2000Burger KingLisa and Darren2000–2005ComfortWallace and Gromit2000Sumitomo"Great Balls of Fire!" Prevacid "Pig Power" 2002 British Telecom T-Birds 2002–2005 PG Tips Cows DairyleaWallace and Gromit2003 Renault KangooCracking Jacob's Cream CrackersFruit Camp2004–2006 Kellogg's Fruit Twistables Creature Comforts on the Countryside Code 2004 The Countryside CodeWallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit promotion2005 Burger KingH-H-Hot PG TipsDucks HovisKellogg's Flushed Away2006Kellogg'sFlushed Away: The Video Game TV SpotFlushed Away Happy Meal ToysMcDonald'sOctopus, Jellyfish2007–2008 Hubba Bubba Creature Discomforts 2008–2009 Leonard Cheshire DisabilitySmart2009 Hotels.com Wallace and Gromit 2009–2010 Npower (UK)Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without...2009 Marks and Spencer Pretty Penny2010–2011 Npower (UK)Underdog2010–2016 National Accident HelplineDot2010Nokia Gulp 2011Arthur Christmas - Denny's AdvertDenny'sDFS - Arthur ChristmasDFSDFS hand made - Arthur ChristmasDFSToys4Tots - Arthur ChristmasToys for TotsThe Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - Happy Meal2012McDonald'sGoogle Hangouts with Wallace and Gromit Google+Hints2013 VisitEnglandShaun the Sheep McDonald's Happy MealHolidays at Home are GREAT!2015 VisitEnglandShaun the Sheep Movie promotion McDonald'sShaun the Sheep Movie - Moments Worth Paying For FindAnyFilmScience Museum and Wallace and GromitIntellectual Property OfficeWe Have a Plan United Nations Sofa Experts 2016–2018 DFS "What if...Santa Forgot"2016Early Man - The Search For Comfort2018 DFSMeerkat Movies - A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon2019Meerkat MoviesShaun the Sheep: SUPER NATURAL WOOLThe Woolmark CompanyChristmas at a Click of a Button JoulesWallace & Gromit x DFS2019–2020 DFSTesco 1002019 Tesco Turtle Journey2020Greenpeace"Things We Love" 2024 BBC"Human Nature"2025 Coinbase
Idents + Caption text Channel Years NotesBBC Two 1995 Christmas idents Channel 4 1996 BBC One 2001 Christmas identsE4 2002 BBC Three 2003 CBBC 2007 BBC One 2008 Christmas identsWatch 2009 BBC Two "Curve" idents 2018 BBC One 2021 Christmas identsNickelodeon idents 2021 BBC One 2024 Christmas idents
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