Post by TJ on Jan 14, 2004 2:28:28 GMT -5
« Original Thread started on: Jun 10th, 2003, 4:03pm By: TJ »
ReBoot is the first network TV series produced entirely with computer graphics. It premiered in the U.S. September 10, 1994 on ABC. It has been shown in 70 countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, and those in western Europe and South America. The show has been dubbed in several languages, among them Spanish, French, and German.
ReBoot is a highly original, clever show, with fast action and dozens of computer puns, in-jokes, and pop culture references. But don't worry -- you don't have to be a programmer to get caught up in it. The computer effects (for example, in "Firewall" and "Mousetrap") can be astounding. Most of the action takes place in Mainframe, a computer on the internet. Most episodes center around Bob, Dot, and Enzo, their adventures and misadventures, and their conflicts with the evil Megabyte. Often the User (one of us) will input a game, and the characters will "reboot" into game characters -- wizards, knights, or race car drivers, for example.
Freed from network censorship, ReBoot took on a much more serious look and feel in season 3, which began airing in the U.S. March 15, 1999. AndrAIa and Enzo underwent major upgrades, Enzo now calling himself Matrix. The relationship between he and AndrAIa developed from puppy love into a serious romance, and Megabyte and Hexadecimal became brutal -- even ruthless -- in their attempts to conquer Mainframe.
ReBoot is produced by a team of animators at Mainframe Entertainment in Vancouver, British Columbia using SiliconGraphics workstations running Softimage and software of their own creation. Some of the show's staff created the animation for the Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing" in 1985. Each episode requires about three weeks to produce. Mainframe Entertainment is also responsible for the animated series "Beast Wars" and "War Planets."
Season 4 of ReBoot began airing in the U.S. October 19, 2001 on Cartoon Network.
ReBoot is the first network TV series produced entirely with computer graphics. It premiered in the U.S. September 10, 1994 on ABC. It has been shown in 70 countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, and those in western Europe and South America. The show has been dubbed in several languages, among them Spanish, French, and German.
ReBoot is a highly original, clever show, with fast action and dozens of computer puns, in-jokes, and pop culture references. But don't worry -- you don't have to be a programmer to get caught up in it. The computer effects (for example, in "Firewall" and "Mousetrap") can be astounding. Most of the action takes place in Mainframe, a computer on the internet. Most episodes center around Bob, Dot, and Enzo, their adventures and misadventures, and their conflicts with the evil Megabyte. Often the User (one of us) will input a game, and the characters will "reboot" into game characters -- wizards, knights, or race car drivers, for example.
Freed from network censorship, ReBoot took on a much more serious look and feel in season 3, which began airing in the U.S. March 15, 1999. AndrAIa and Enzo underwent major upgrades, Enzo now calling himself Matrix. The relationship between he and AndrAIa developed from puppy love into a serious romance, and Megabyte and Hexadecimal became brutal -- even ruthless -- in their attempts to conquer Mainframe.
ReBoot is produced by a team of animators at Mainframe Entertainment in Vancouver, British Columbia using SiliconGraphics workstations running Softimage and software of their own creation. Some of the show's staff created the animation for the Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing" in 1985. Each episode requires about three weeks to produce. Mainframe Entertainment is also responsible for the animated series "Beast Wars" and "War Planets."
Season 4 of ReBoot began airing in the U.S. October 19, 2001 on Cartoon Network.
Bob has blue skin and hair the color of pure silicon. As Guardian 452, Bob's chief function is to defend Mainframe from the plots of viruses such as Megabyte and Hexadecimal, and to help its inhabitants win games. He wears Glitch, a multi-function guardian keytool, on his left arm. Bob is rather impulsive and overconfident, which sometimes gets him in trouble with Dot. He has an old car he works on in his spare time, and lives in Kits sector near the waterfront, named for Kitsilano, a waterfront district in Vancouver, where ReBoot is produced. Not a native of Mainframe, Bob hails from the Supercomputer. Michael Benyaer provided Bob's voice in seasons 1 and 2; Ian James Corlett began providing his voice in "Number Seven".
Dot Matrix. Enzo's older sister. Dot has green skin and black hair. She runs Dot's Diner, a retro-style eatery on Baudway frequented by binomes. Dot sometimes wears glasses, and is something of a workaholic. She can even sing! Dot tends to think things through thoroughly before taking action, which can irritate Bob and Enzo, and is very independent. A successful businesswoman, Dot is always on the lookout for new opportunities. Dot underwent a minor upgrade in season 3; her figure is slightly more rounded, and she now wears eye makeup. Voice of Kathleen Barr.
Enzo Matrix. Like Dot, Enzo has green skin and black hair. In seasons 1 and 2 he almost always wore a red baseball hat, and two of his favorite games were Jet Ball and Circuit Racing. He went to school (or at least classes), where he hated studying ancient languages like COBOL and FORTRAN. He was featured in the episode "Enzo the Smart," and underwent a minor upgrade in "Talent Night" and a major one in "Icons," when he began calling himself Matrix. Jesse Moss did the voice of Enzo in episodes 1 through 11; Matthew Sinclair began providing the voice of Enzo in "Talent Night"; Paul Dobson began providing his voice in "Icons."
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