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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Media, Television Production |
Founded | 1 April 1998 |
Founder | Jackie Cockle Brian Little Joe Dembinski |
Headquarters | Manchester, England, UK |
Key people | Jackie Cockle Brian Little Joe Dembinski |
Products | Children's Television, Stop motion |
Total assets | $1,119 million |
Number of employees | 67 (2007) |
Parent | HIT Entertainment |
Website | www.hotanimation.com |
HOT Animation was a British animation studio owned by HiT Entertainment that specialized in stop-motion animation, cel animation, and computer animation. It was established on April 1st, 1998 by Jackie Cockle, Brian Little, and Joe Dembinski.
Their worldwide success followed with Bob the Builder, a British animated television series which follows construction builder Bob and the Can-Do-Crew of building vehicles. The theme tune was released as a single, Can We Fix It? with an accompanying promo produced at HOT, which beat Kylie Minogue's "Please Stay", Eminem's Stan and Westlife's "What Makes a Man" to become the Christmas number-one single.
The company then made a reboot of Brambly Hedge, a series of 30-minute specials based on the illustrated books for children by Jill Barklem, and Rubbadubbers, a series about bath toys that come alive. Pingu, a British-Swiss animated series about a family of penguins, was recreated with great success from 2003-2006.
HOT ceased to produce the main series of Bob the Builder after 2007 when the studio announced jobs would be cut, and opted to produce a direct to DVD series called Bob the Builder: On Site, using stop-motion from Bob's World and live action from real world construction sites. The studio closed sometime before HIT was purchased by Mattel in 2012.
List of productions
TV
- Brambly Hedge (1998-2000, Season 2 only)
- Bob the Builder (1999–2008, Seasons 1-16 only)
- Rubbadubbers (2002–2005)
- Pingu (2003–2006, Seasons 5-6 only)
Feature-length specials
- Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember (2001)
- Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-a-Lot (2003)
- Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesburg Winter Games (2004)
- Bob the Builder - Project Build It: When Bob Became a Builder (2005)
- Bob the Builder - Project Build It: Built to Be Wild (2006)
- Bob the Builder - Project Build It: Scrambler to the Rescue (2007)
- Bob the Builder - Project Build It: Race to the Finish (2008)
Direct-to-home video
- Bob the Builder: On Site (2007–2009)
Music videos made by HOT
- Can We Fix It? (2001)
- Mambo No. 5 (2001)
- Eskimo Disco 7-11 (2006)
- Big Fish, Little Fish (2008)
Other
- Dinosaur Roar (1999, pilot for HIT Entertainment)
- Gina and Stella (2001, short film)
- Bitziboos (2004, pilot for HIT Entertainment)
- Life on Mars (2007, Camberwick Green parody sequence for Series 2: Episode 5)
References