HOT Animation was a British stop-motion animation studio owned by HiT Entertainment. The company animated the Bob the Builder series until the CGI change, in which SD Entertainment took over.
HOT also produced the fifth and sixth seasons of Pingu, the Rubbadubbers, and even a parody of the Camberwick Green in an episode of Life on Mars from the BBC.
The studio started to lay off employees (e. g. Curtis Jobling) sometime around 2007, and later went defunct around 2012, around the same year Mattel bought HiT. Afterwards, the studio's building was taken over by Chapman Entertainment, which was founded by Keith Chapman, creator of Bob the Builder. However, Chapman Entertainment later went defunct in 2013 when DreamWorks Animation acquired the company's assets.
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