After becoming beloved for its inventive (and Oscar-winning) approach to stop-motion animation with films like Chicken Run and the "Wallace & Gromit" franchise and an entry into the CG format with 2006's Flushed Away , Aardman Animations is about the re-emerge, phoenix-like, from a few quiet years to launch not one but two new high-profile projects ? now teamed with Sony Pictures Imageworks after the end of its long association with ...