Aardman,an employee-owned company, based in Bristol (UK) and co-founded in 1976 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, is an independent,award-winning studio that occupies a space at the centre of the animation industry and animation culture. In 2022,the studio finds itself at an exciting moment as media platforms continue to develop and evolve and offer new outlets and formats for storytelling and interactive entertainment.
A recent, new arrival at the studio is its chief technology officer Steven Shapiro, and 3D World recently had the opportunity to talk with him about his role, the changing dynamics of the studio, and opportunities to be embraced.
Our conversation begins with Shapiro explaining his role at the studio. “There's a high importance on the physical aspect of what we do (stop-frame animation) and, therefore, the unique challenges in melding that to the digital technologies that we particularly need to develop and evolve,” he explains. “A lot of my role here is really to bring together teams that are solving some of those challenges collectively, to create a technology team that
