Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton: ‘At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!’
The studio’s co-founders on accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other’s best ally Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations, which turns 50 this year. The pair began animating as teenagers, selling their first short – starring a superhero called Aardman – to the BBC’s Vision On in 1972. In 1977, they created Morph for the children’s programme T
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The studio’s co-founders on accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other’s best ally Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations, which turns 50 this year. The pair began animating as teenagers, selling their first short – starring a superhero called Aardman – to the BBC’s Vision On in 1972. In 1977, they created Morph for the children’s programme T
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Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton: ‘At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!’
The studio’s co-founders on accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other’s best ally Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations, which turns 50 this year. The pair began animating as teenagers, selling their first short – starring a superhero called Aardman – to the BBC’s Vision On in 1972. In 1977, they created Morph for the children’s programme T
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Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton: ‘At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!’
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