2. Brief History
Aardman was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972 in Bristol. Their
initial involvement was with the BBC, when they made a animated sequence aimed
at deaf children called Vision On. The simple clay character Morph was their most
successful animation until Creature Comforts won an Oscar. Three Wallace &
Gromit films were released, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), and
A Close Shave (1995), The later two winning two academy awards.
In 1997 Aardman teamed up with Dreamworks, where they formed Chicken Run
(2000), Wa$ace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), then Flushed Away in
2006.
Unfortunately in 2005 a serious fire burnt and destroyed 30 years worth of Aardmans
props, models, scenery, and awards within their storage warehouse.
In 2011 they released Arthur Christmas, and this year they brought out Pirates! In an
Adventure with Scientists.

3. Morph
Morph was released in 1977 on UK TV.
Morph appeared with Tony Hart in Hartbeat and
Take Hart, a children’s TV presenter who based his
entertainment around art.
Morph mainly appeared in short 1 minute cut scenes
within Tony Hart’s program.
Morph was designed with clay, and filmed using stop
motion, compared to Aardmans more recent
animations, you can see the how much better their
work is now compared to Morph due to experience
and time.
Morph was a significant character, firstly because he
was so incredibly simple, and secondly because he was
a friendly, odd looking being which everyone loved.

4. Wallace and Gromit
Four thirty minute episodes, and one full feature film.
Their first release was in 1989 (A Grand Day Out)
Wallace is an oblivious Northern English cheese
enthusiast, while his dog Gromit, is an intelligent dog who
can speak only through facial expressions and body
language.
All four of the Wallace and Gromit short films received
100% rating on the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes.
The quirky humour of the animation is extremely popular,
and Wallace and Gromit, are in fact top rated British Icons.

5. Wa l l a c e i s t h e m a i n
Wallace
character of Wallace and I believe Wallace is the
Gromit, he’s a cheese backbone to Aardman
f a n a t i c f r o m Wi g a n , Animations Ltd. His
Lancashire. Wallace is narrow minded ways work
most fond of cheese, so well with his smart dog,
c r a c ke r s , a n d te a . He forming nail-biting
without fail reads either scenarios in which they
the Morning, Afternoon m u s t o v e r c o m e . It s
and Evening post every obvious from Wallace’s
day. He usually wears a visual appearance, hes a
white shirt, a green happy, middle aged man,
knitted pullover, a red tie who means well, i believe
and some brown trousers. this is the main reason he
Wallace is an inventor, and appeals to the audience so
his job varies within each well. Wallace is voiced by
film, he’s ranged from Peter Sallis, who has a
being a window washer to ver y odd, but enticing
a pest control service and voice.
finally a baker.

6. Technology
Aardman’s Animation’s are clay/plasticine
models recorded and manipulated using stop
motion, which is, technically a large numbers of
images captured and ordered to look like a video.
I researched into how they make there stop
motion look so natural and consistent.
They have metal structures which they cover in
plasticine, they use the flexible metal to
manoeuvre the models as cleanly as possible.
They also screw on different body parts to
change facial expressions and body language.