Aardman Animations

Aardman Studios is based in Bristol. Aardman has made many blockbuster films including; Wallace and Grommet, Flushed Away and Chicken Run. Aardman was founded in 1972 by David Sorption and Peter Lyod. Aardman studios specializes in clay. Aardman studios is very precise in their stop motion techniques Take Chicken run for instance they had many different clay faces for each different letter in the alphabet. It had 10,000 different frames. It took 3 weeks to shoot 1 frame. There was 24 frames a second. They went through an incredible 900 kg of clay and 4000 liters of paint. There was over 3 years of animation. Aardman Studios helped chicken run set the baseline for modern animation after chicken run Hollywood started to use animation in its films. Aardman studios has many genres from creating television adverts such as “change 4 life”. To “chevron” cars to the BBC. Aardman is well know in the media industry thanks to chicken run. Even in commercials such as chevron aardman has still used clay again concluding my point they specialize in clay. Aardman have show they can make 2 hour films or 2 minute films and still make them effective. I feel most of Aardman’s work is aimed at a young audience as flushed away and Wallace and grommet are both for young audiences also the chevron advert looked like a kids program.  Kids can interact more with animation as its fun especially clay. Aardman studios have made stop motion so effective by an excellent team such as a painters, model makers, set dresser, voices, graphic artists, spay shops, model makers, fabricators, dubbing engineers , digital grading, composting artists. This is why films such as chicken run and Wallace and grommet have had such excellent awards and reviews and this is also why in years to come animators will look to aardman as the modern creators of computer animation. The downside to clay animation is unlike a animation that has been done all on a computer is it can be easily broken or burnt; aardman studios had a big fire costing millions and losing lots of casting from the Wallace and grommet film it also take a lot longer than normal film and needs an extremely big cast. I feel aardman studios is great it started as a small business from Bristol (hardly Hollywood) and went on to great things. It has helped films win Oscars and many other prizes.