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 stop-motion specialist Alan Friswell, who made the miniature figures from modelling clay and latex rubber, over armatures of wire and ball-and-socket joints. The models were then animated one frame at a time, and incorporated into the CGI elements of the game through digital photography. "ClayFighter" for the Super NES and The Neverhood for the PC are other examples. Scientists at IBM used a scanning tunneling microscope to single out and move individual atoms which were used to make characters in "A Boy and His Atom". This was the tiniest scale stop-motion video made at that time. Stop motion Stop motion