From:	GRANITE <granite@**.net>
Subject:	Re: GI JOE in SR
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 1996 02:21:54 -0700

Edward Paul wrote:
>
> > >|Steven A. Tinner said on 1:37/23 Sep 96...
> > >|
> > >|> Anyone else out there like to see a SERIOUS animated SR cartoon
series?

This would be cool..The BT cartoons would be better if they had better
artwork..I have a tape of the test animation they did before they did the
series..Good doesn't even get close to disribing the quality of what they had
on the first part of the tape..It was beyond the quality of Babylon 5 in
quality..The mechs looked REAL..There was some talk of using this animation
in a live action movie..Anyway they had to tone down to better fit it with
the normal [cartoon] animation..I would have liked it better if they went
with the better stuff and went for a ReBoot sort of animation..Anyway I get
lost wandering around my point..I would like to see something like this
too..in the spirit/quality of Akira..But not the Anima style..The BIG eyes
and fly away hair REALLY gets on my nerves..ANd there does NOT have to be a
couple of STUPID characters that are poorly drawn who's sole purpose is comic
relief..AArgh!!!
>
> Personally, I'd like to see Shadowrun in HBO movies. HBO does an
> excellent job and I'd like to see them move into the science fiction
> genre.

I would like this even MORE..The tech is here to do all the Meta types and
magic and Cyberspace..And make it look like it is supposed to..BUT..If they
do this they will HAVE to spend enough time/money on the computer
graphics..otherwise you get a stinker like "Species" A really cool movie with
everything it takes to make it in the big time..EXCEPT when they start
showing the LAME CARTOON of a monster..I laughed..H#ll they would have been
better off with a guy in a rubber suit..At least then it would have looked
like it was actually in the scene..Anyway..IF is done like they really mean
it they could make the big time..And the path has been paved by movies like
"Hackers", " Jonny Mneumonic", "Tek Wars", and the like that
main streamers
would be able to accept the concept with little adjustment..

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