Its hard to think of claymation without thinking about Aardman, a Bristol-based company helmed by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, visionaries since the late 70s in the field of animation. If anyone reading this remembers Peter Gabriel’s incredible music video “Sledgehammer,” if you’ve ever seen Wallace & Gromit or Chicken Run, you will no doubt recognize their style. “Creature Comforts” is the Oscar winning short film by Nick Park featuring the real and unscripted voices of the great British public put in the mouths of zoo animals made of modeling clay. Aardman went on to develop this into a series no less amusing or charming than the original .