David Sproxton CBE is one of the co-founders (together with Peter Lord) of Aardman Animations. He is the producer of A Close Shave, Chicken Run, Angry Kid, Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away, A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Morph, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
David graduated from Collingwood College, University of Durham before starting as an animator, producing segments for the Vision On TV series. Sproxton and Lord created the character of Morph for Take Hart (which featured Tony Hart, the artist from Vision On).
He is credited as the cinematographer for the BAFTA Award nominated War Story, and the Oscar-nominated Adam, as well as the Oscar-winning Creature Comforts directed by Nick Park. In May 2006, Sproxton (along with Peter Lord) visited the "Aardman Exhibit" at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, where he met Hayao Miyazaki, who has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works. Sproxton was appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006.