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 Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare" was released, as was "The Sculptor's Nightmare", a film by Billy Bitzer. Italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, "The Automatic Moving Company" in 1912. The great European pioneer of stop motion was Wladyslaw Starewicz (1892–1965), who animated "The Beautiful Lukanida" (1910), "The Battle of the Stag Beetles" (1910), and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" (1911). One of the earliest clay animation films was "Modelling Extraordinary", which impressed audiences in 1912. December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins' 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen. Also in December