Park also developed the clay modelled shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace and Gromit, a comical pair of friends: Wallace being a naive English inventor with a love of cheese, and Gromit his best friend, the intelligent but silent dog. In 1991, Park's short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to win an Academy Award. Of the five Lip Synch shorts, two were directed by Lord, one by Barry Purves, one by Richard Goleszowski and one by Nick Park. Lord and Sproxton began hiring more animators at this point three of the newcomers made their directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. These five shorts worked in the same area as the Animated Conversations pieces, but were more sophisticated. Later Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4, including the Conversation Pieces series. Also in the 1980s, they created the trombone-playing character "Douglas" in a television commercial for Lurpak butter. They produced the music video for the song "My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone in 1987. Aardman also created the title sequence for The Great Egg Race and supplied animation for the multiple award-winning music video of Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer".
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Around the same time, Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks.
The process of using clay animation to produce a segment called "Greeblies" (1975) became the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. The company name originates from the name of their nerdish Superman character in that sequence. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On. History 1972–1996 Īardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. It is the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time. Their debut, Chicken Run (2000), is their top-grossing film. Their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing stop-motion films of all time. It successfully entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006). It is known for using techniques with the characters Wallace and Gromit modelled in plasticine. Rainbow Fish (1999–2000) (co-production with EM.Aardman Animations Ltd., also known as Aardman, is a British-American stop-motion clay animation studio in Bristol, England.Weird-Oh's (1999–2001) (co-production with Mainframe Entertainment and EM.TV).Watership Down (1999–2001) (co-production with Alltime Entertainment).Dragon Tales (1999-2005) (co-production with Sesame Workshop and Sony Pictures Television).Freaky Stories (1997–2000) (co-production with Sound Venture Productions, Funbag Animation Studios, and Vujade Entertainment).
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How to Be Indie (2009–2011) (co-production with Heroic Film Company and YTV).Grandpa in My Pocket (2009–present, distribution only).The Adrenaline Project (2007–2008) (co-production with YTV).The Hoobs (2001–2002) (co-production with The Jim Henson Company).Our Hero (2000–2002) (co-production with Heroic Film Company).DHX acquired Epitome Pictures in 2014, then they assumed the name of DHX Studios Toronto in 2016, but this company had no relation outside name. In that same year, DHX Media ceased production on producing content at the "Ex-Decode" offices.
Decode became a subsidiary company of DHX Media. On May 16, 2006, Decode and Halifax Film announced that they would merge the holding company DHX Media. It was founded by Steven DeNure, Neil Court and John Delmage in 1997. Decode Entertainment was a Canadian production company, a distribution company and based in Toronto, Ontario.
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