Aardman studios.
Aardman- what does it mean? Not much! It was the name of their first superhero character but no one but the two of them knew this. A mix of an aardvark and superman
They started out animating for fun and they got put in front of the BBC by daves dad and asked to pitch ideas for a deaf program.
They started out working in the same ways that Disney and Hanna Barbera.. Cell animation.
Started working in plasticine or modelling clay after seeing an animation on TV. They don't like the new plasticine so they make their own.
They started building aardman when they were at uni studying geography and English but practicing their animation in the holidays.
Created morph in 1976 and it's still going today.
Knew someone who had recorded their kids playing and animated it, tried that but didn't get very interesting stories so started interviewing people and animated their lives: creature comforts.
THE STUDIOS:
Feature films
TV commercials
TV series
Digital and online group- games, apps etc
Lots going on all the time.
Labour intensive films- cost a lot to get them done compared to cheaper, faster methods of animation.
Peter lord "Pixar is famously wacky because their work is fundamentally dull"
The studios at Aardman are a really fun environment
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