Aardman Animations Limited is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England. It is known for films and television series made using stop-motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from
Wallace and Gromit,
Shaun the Sheep,
Morph, and
Angry Kid. 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.