Aardman (or Aardman Animation) was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972. They had wanted to direct an animated feature, but instead wound up working on shorter form content for the BBC and ...
“It was really kind of a freak idea,” recalls Lord, who directed what became “Chicken Run,” the first of Aardman’s six features. This was shortly before Pixar launched the CG revolution with “Toy ...