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Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE (born 4 November 1953) is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit.
Peter Lord is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Aardman. He co-founded the studio with his long-time collaborator, David Sproxton, in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award ® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and for Wat’s Pig in 1996, and Best Animated Feature for Pirates!
Aardman 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. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On.
Peter Lord is a British animator and co-founder of Aardman Animations. He has worked on many acclaimed films and series, such as Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep.
Learn about Aardman, the animation studio co-founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972. Discover their history, values, people, sustainability, diversity and Bristol involvement.
Peter Lord shares his insight and stories of UK-based Aardman Animations, in this Domestika Maestros. In the sixties, two British school friends turned university students decided to try their hand at animation.
Peter Lord is an animation legend. He co-founded Aardman at only 17 years old, co-directed Chicken Run, was animator of Morph, produced Shaun the Sheep and n...
