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Aardman

British animation studio based in Bristol, UK

September 2024

  • Laika Studios’ Coraline.

    Skeleton warriors and plasticine chickens: why stop-motion animation is still going strong a century on

    Dinosaurs, children’s adventures, horror fantasies … stop-motion cinema has done them all. Now it’s being celebrated as a pivotal part of movie history

June 2024

  • Clay animation penguin Feather McGraw holding a police mugshot chalkboard bearing his name

    Evil penguin Feathers McGraw to return in new Wallace and Gromit film

    The villain, who first appeared in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers, will play key role in Vengeance Most Fowl

December 2023

  • aghast animated chicken parents look on as a leg breaks out of a hatching egg in front of them

    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget review – disappointingly scrambled sequel

    Ginger and Rocky are back, but Aardman’s effortful follow-up to its beloved great hen escape feels undercooked on every level

November 2023

  • A still from Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

    ‘No need to worry’: Wallace and Gromit studio reassures fans over clay ‘shortage’

  • Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008).

    Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman Animations running out of clay

October 2023

  • A scene from Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget review – poultry derring-do boosted by some showstopping gags

    The sequel to the 2000 hit verges on formulaic, feeling a little like it’s been produced by AI. But it’s largely redeemed by decent jokes and a lively, likable cast

August 2023

  • A Lilliputian enterprise … the set of The Wrong Trousers, which is 30 this year.

    Say cheese! Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers at 30 – in pictures

    The animated pair’s second outing won an Oscar and changed claymation cinema forever. The curator of a new exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, along with the film’s producer and co-writer, discuss its conception, production and enduring appeal

February 2023

  • Workers carry a large sculpture of Aardman’s Tiger Morph character from a van

    Wallace and Gromit maker warns UK animators may have to move abroad

    Exclusive: head of Aardman studio blames Brexit as UK falls behind on skills and tax relief

August 2022

  • Scary boss … Jane Fonda as The Dragon, Simon Pegg as Bob and Eva Noblezada as Sam Greenfield in Luck.

    All work and no play: why the cartoon world needs to stop copying the corporate

    According to animated movies, all human life is controlled by monsters or rabbits or leprechauns diligently working a 9 to 5 in a metaphysical office complex – where’s the fun in that?

December 2021

  • Copyright Sarah Lee - Justin Fletcher aka "Mr Tumble" an entertainer and star of children's tv/ CBeebies.

    The reader interview
    Mr Tumble! Post your questions for Justin Fletcher

    Ahead of the big-screen CBeebies Christmas panto – and a new Shaun the Sheep TV special – we need your questions for the kingpin of British children’s TV

December 2020

  • Very few have her abilities … Gillian Anderson who is currently on Netflix as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown.

    Gillian Anderson and Richard E Grant lead cast of Aardman's Netflix musical, Robin Robin

    Exclusive: Anderson will purr as villainous Cat in the British studio’s first collaboration with the streaming service

July 2020

  • Julia Sawalha says she was not offered the opportunity to do a voice test, but sent one anyway.

    Julia Sawalha furious after being told she is 'too old' for Chicken Run sequel

    Actor feels ‘plucked, stuffed and roasted’ as she’s told she will not voice Ginger in the upcoming Chicken Run 2

June 2020

  • Wallace and Gromit in their new augmented reality adventure, The Big Fix Up

    Say cheese: new Wallace and Gromit tale stars robot pigeons … and you

  • Chicken Run.

    How we made
    Nick Park and Jane Horrocks: how we made Chicken Run

April 2020

  • Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit cheer to a new adventure in the DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

    Stream team
    Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep: why I reach for them in dark times

    Full of visual wit and narrative ingenuity, the tactile warmth and joie de vivre of these Aardman animations is soul-invigorating

February 2020

  • Exclusive - 73rd British Academy Film Awards, Ceremony, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 02 Feb 2020<br>EXCLUSIVE - Premium Rates Apply. Please call your account manager for pricing. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Levy/BAFTA/REX/Shutterstock (10543597fa) Rebel Wilson Exclusive - 73rd British Academy Film Awards, Ceremony, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 02 Feb 2020

    The monarchy, Al Pacino and Cats: the key snubs of this year's Baftas

    The red carpet has been rolled and the awards doled out – so who has most cause to go home weeping?

November 2019

  • Robin Robin by Aardman Productions

    Hold the plasticine: Aardman’s new look for musical made with Netflix

  • Aardman Animations’ Early Man.

    Time to get a move on: is British film animation set for a rapid revival?

October 2019

  • Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon

    A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon review – an out-of-this-world delight

  • Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon

    A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon review – a sheepquel for all ages

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