“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 ...

Britain’s Aardman ranks alongside Pixar and Studio Ghibli as one of this generation’s greatest animation studios, from early shorts like “Creature Comforts” to the ongoing adventures of Shaun the ...

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 ...

For Nick Park, it always begins with a drawing. On “Chicken Run” (2000), it was a chicken digging its way out of a coop with a shovel, which became a riff on “The Great Escape,” and on his latest, ...

Ahead of its release on Netflix January 3, io9 visited the set of Vengeance Most Fowl to see why now is Aardman's time to return to Wallace and Gromit. Reading time 10 minutes For as potent as a ...

As a Brit on the internet, I’m aware of a few stereotypes that follow British culture — and how hard I personally lean into those tickboxes. We like tea (peach only for me, but I digress), it rains ...

Every now and again in this line of work, you meet someone with a creative energy that is applied to unrelated endeavors as broad as animation, music and product design. Gavin Strange has taken a ...

Children are encouraged to get hands-on as the world’s leading stop-motion studio showcases its work in east London What would Wallace – everyone’s favourite amateur inventor – look like with a ...

Mifa & Variety’s Animation Personality of the Year's handcrafted, ever-so-British animations have endeared it to the world But starring chickens. “It was really kind of a freak idea,” recalls Lord, ...