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Read about the ReBoot TV movies due out this year.
The Daily Variety for Thursday, March 23, 1995 wrote:
...but no other place is more involved in establishing a 3-D animation beachhead on TV than a Vancouver studio called the Hub, backed by Canada's Alliance Communications and BLT Prods. That's where the syndicated "ReBoot" is produced, the first cartoon series consisting of nothing but 3-D computer animation.Read what The Computer Paper for March 1995 wrote.Created by the same people who animated the Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing", "ReBoot" premiered last September and is a primetime hit in Canada. It airs on ABC in the United States and is being dubbed for 24 other countries.
The show is produced completely by 30 production people, including music and editorial, says Cheryl Blakeney, a spokesperson for the show. "We do two episodes in six weeks," which can be grueling, she says, given the amount of computational time required.
"The outlay of equipment is huge," Blakeney acknowledges, adding, "We're the only people who do this in any kind of mass quantity, so we're paying top dollar for everything. Pretty soon, there will be a whole bunch of people doing it, and the prices will go down and down, and we'll still be paying our bills!"
Blakeney believes, "Five years from now, the whole industry is going to be digital."
Kathleen Murphy discussed ReBoot in the July/August 1995 issue of Film Comment magazine.
IRIS Universe, a publication of SiliconGraphics, ran a cover story on ReBoot in the spring 1996 issue (No. 35).