Aardman Animations Limited, stylized as
AARDMAN since 2022, is a British animation studio based in Bristol. It is known for films and television series made using stop motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from
Wallace & Gromit,
Chicken Run,
Shaun the Sheep, and
Morph. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with
Owzat (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with
Flushed Away (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $135.6 million per film. Between 2000 and 2006, Aardman partnered with DreamWorks Animation.