Aardman Animations, Ltd. (also known as Aardman Studios or simply Aardman) is a British-American animation studio based in Bristol, England. Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), they entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006).