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 especially those on the 1950s CBS program "Suspense", which Autolite sponsored. In the 1960s and 1970s, independent clay animator Eliot Noyes Jr. refined the technique of "free-form" clay animation with his Oscar-nominated 1965 film "Clay (or the Origin of Species)". Noyes also used stop motion to animate sand lying on glass for his musical animated film "Sandman" (1975). Stop motion was used by Rankin/Bass Productions on some of their television programs and feature films including "The New Adventures of Pinocchio" (1960–1961), "Willy McBean and his Magic Machine" (1963, 1965) and most notably seasonal/holiday favorites like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964),