Aardman Animations

Aardman's adeptness of engaging audiences with compelling stories told through animation, has earned the company a deserved worldwide reputation. Their award-winning work produces a unique brand of independent film alongside work for broadcast and advertising spots. The studio has had ten Oscar® nominations, and has won four.

Famously, films such as Lip Synch, A Ground Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and the Curse of the Were Rabbit, Chicken Run, Flushed Away and Shaun the Sheep, plus the Creature Comforts British Gas adverts made Aardman's name and the nation took their creations such as Morph, Wallace and Gromit, and the eponymous Shaun the Sheep to their hearts.

You can now revel in the Aardman story by visiting the studios. Discover which rock star's video was created by the team, why it takes more than five years to make a film, which fruit used to be ripened in what is now the studios and how to create a storyboard. View the sets and meet the animators behind the characters on a fabulous, inspiring and inventive trip.