Aardman, the Bristol, England-based studio that created Oscar-winning animated films including Wallace & Gromit, announced on November 10 that it is becoming employee-owned. Peter Lord and David Sproxton, the two founders of the 130-employee company, said "[W]e are very excited by the prospect of seeing Aardman roll far into the future under this arrangement and can rest easy that those four decades which have slipped by have paved the way for many more years of great creativity."