Jackie Cockle (born 1950) is a British animator, producer, and director, best known as the co-founder of the

stop motion Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exh ...

animation studio HOT Animation. She is the creator and creative producer of the pre-school animation Timmy Time, creative producer of

Bob the Builder ''Bob the Builder'' is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment which ran from to in the United Kingdom through the CBBC strand and later CBeebies. The series centres on the adventures ...

and Brambly Hedge, director of

The Wind in the Willows ''The Wind in the Willows'' is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and get ...

and more. Cockle, a graduate of the Manchester College of Art and Design, has won 3

BAFTA The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA, ) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom. In addition to its annual awa ...

awards: one in the best animation category for Bob the Builder 30 minute special (2002), and two in the pre-school animation for Timmy Time (2010, 2013) - a production of the Bristol-based Aardman Animations.

Career history

Jackie Cockle has participated in many stop frame productions during her 40-year-long career. In 1976, she became a part of

Cosgrove Hall Films Cosgrove Hall Films was a British animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall, headquartered in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was a major producer of children's television and animated programmes/films, which are s ...

, where she produced and directed many shows for over 20 years, including: *

Chorlton and the Wheelies ''Chorlton and the Wheelies'' is an animated children's television series that ran from 26 September 1976 until 17 December 1978 on the British television channel ITV. 40 episodes were produced. The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an ...

(animator) * Cinderella (animator) * Cockleshell Bay (director) * A Tale Of Two Toads (director) * Oh, Mr. Toad (director) *

(director) * Truckers * Noddy's Toyland Adventures (BBC) * Oakie Doke * Brambly Hedge * Animal Shelf * Rocky and the Dodos In 1998, Cockle co-established HOT Animation as a subsidiary of

HIT Entertainment HIT Entertainment Limited (stylised as HiT) was a British-American entertainment company founded in 1982 as Henson International Television, the international distribution arm of The Jim Henson Company, by Jim Henson, Peter Orton, and Sophie Turn ...

, where she produced 210 10-minute episodes and 8 45-minute specials of Bob the Builder. In addition, from 1998 to 2006, she produced and was the supervising director of episodes 5-8 of Brambly Hedge,

Rubbadubbers ''Rubbadubbers'' is a British stop-motion children's television series produced by HIT Entertainment, with animation production by Hot Animation. The series was broadcast in the UK on BBC2 and CBeebies from 2 September 2002 to 14 February 2005. ...

, and

Pingu ''Pingu'' is a stop motion animated children's television series originally produced in Switzerland. It was co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It centres on the titular anthropomorphic emperor penguin and his family, who live i ...

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