Bob the Builder (2015 TV series) Bob the Builder (2015 TV series) Bob the Builder is a CGI animated children's television series and a reboot of the British animated television show "Bob the Builder". It was first broadcast in the United States on PBS Kids, beginning on 1 September 2015. After the original show ended in 2012, Mattel bought the "Bob the Builder" franchise for a revamped series which premiered on Channel 5 on 1 September 2015. The series was given a visual overhaul for both the characters and the scenery, with Bob and his team moving to the bustling metropolis of Spring City. The CGI
Stop motion and AT-AT walkers in "The Empire Strikes Back", and the AT-ST walkers in "Return of the Jedi" were all filmed using stop-motion animation, with the latter two films utilising go motion: an invention from renowned visual effects veteran Phil Tippett. The many shots including the ghosts in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the first two feature films in the "RoboCop" series use Tippett's go motion. In the UK, Aardman Animations continued to grow. Channel 4 funded a new series of clay animated films, "Conversation Pieces", using recorded soundtracks of real people talking. A further series in 1986, called "Lip