Developing Stop Motion Animation

Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 in Bristol. The studio is well known for its films made using stop motion clay animation techniques. It was found by Peter Lord, born on November 4th 1953, and David Sproxton, born on January 6th 1954, both gentlemen were keen animators.
Their first production as a company was a television series for deaf people named 'Vision On', this planted the idea for the very famous 'Morph', a clay character.

In the late 80's Lord and Sproxton started to hire more animators, one of these employees was Nick Park, a filmmaker from Preston, he created the first Aardman production to win an Oscar, 'Creature Comforts'. He then went on to develop clay modeled shots showing the adventures of 'Wallace and Gromit', two of these shorts also won Academy Awards.
Aardman got a contract with Dreamworks Animation in late 1997, they teamed up to create 'Chicken Run' which would then become Aardman's first feature film when it was released in June 2000. Because of the financial success of Chicken run and the new bridges with Dreamworks, Aardman were able to bring back 'Wallace and Gromit' in 2005, which again because an Academy Award Winner.
Despite the success with stop motion animation, Aardman decided to start using computer animations, releasing 'Flushed Away' as their first film.