ReBoot

For all of you who have been following the ReBoot Revival project (http://www.ReBoot.com), there have been a few weeks of questioning the quality of the content being produced.

As a fellow fan who has been following the comic since book 1, I have as well noticed a change in the way the comic has been directed. It has taken a direction that we are not familiar with in the ReBoot universe. And recently, there have been so many changes from scene to scene, it feels a bit crammed together.

Maybe it's in my opinion, but I feel we are rushing the team too much. With high fan demands, and little word on the progress on Rainmaker's side, we turn to the Revival team and have expectations to "wow" us until Rainmaker makes an announcement.

With the past few weeks, I truly believe we should give the Revival team, at the very least, a holiday break to come up with some material, an...

Right.  This has already been posted on the Java Hut and Reboot.cc.  I'm posting it here because there's a better chance of Rainmaker reading posts on those blogs than here and on ReBoot.cc and the Java Hut because we are but quiet little fan communities.

At first I thought the surveys were a really good idea, I have to admit.  But upon reflection... they really are just generic surveys.  And the topics, while "specific", are jumping around all over the place.  I'm failing to see how these kinds of questions would help them really.  Maybe they're trying to figure out how to advertise to the general public?  Is that why we're being asked what social networking sites we use?

I sincerely hope that's the case.  It was only happenstance that I actually came to learn about the whole revival project, and in all honestly I consider it to be an extreme (but very lucky) fluke that I happened to find GB's revival site only a couple of months b...

Why do I keep embarassing myself like this?  For the magnets of course!  Mind Crimes and Blake Undying went up on our fridge today!  Yay!  Here is more fan art, no puppets or toys in this one, it's all me with a little help from PWB.

In other news, I'm almost finished part 3 of 5 of my nano with a word count of just over 33 000.  I've set a new deadline for myself of Nov 27th so I can go into the city for a friends bday party on the 28th. 

Hey all. Not much from me for the last week. I did manage to make a World addition to my pitch Space Hogs:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/pitch/958

And posted another bit of fanart to my gallery. This time a little love for Moon Dog from Hero High. I totally love the design of the character and sort of tried to imitate the clean animated look of the book:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/gallery/689

No real conversation pieces this week, so I'll keep it short and sweet.

I would like to thank RPulfer for insirpiring this, and my muse and subject PWB. enjoy

This is a more metaphorical interpretation of the soul-switching process - when I saw the sketches of what Byron's disembodied spirit looked like I got a clear image in my head - this is pretty close.

He fights for freedom, justice and the Canadian Way... whatever that is! And he does it all with his hat!


EDIT: and I just did a coloured version with lettering and stuff!

Fan Art! By Yours Truly!

    Some of you may already be groaning, some may already be excited, but hear me out.


    In 1996 a cartoon called Road Rovers was canceled at the end of its thirteenth episode. The announcement came as a shock to fans; It was aired by Warner Brothers, and had shown ratings rivaling its other hit show at the time, Superman. Many reasons were cited, including legal restrictions (Legislation had been just been passed requiring a certain amount of educational cartoon time on major networks (Read, Captain Planet)), as well as inappropriate humor (The writers, in an effort to expand the audience to include teens and even adults, sometimes inserted adult references or jokes sure to go over young viewers heads), but ultimately it came down to, "Because we said so."


    The show was picked up by Cartoon Network for another two years, shown only as re-runs, before it was once again taken off the air, this time...

I've just added a fabulous new pic to my fan art gallery... by Sturstein (check him out here: http://www.zeros2heroes.com/gallery/10)

For those who missed it, there's a new chapter about Trajan, added to my blog and to the Extra Chapters 'gallery' for lack of a better word, on the Rip Current page.

I am still thinking about putting up some images of the reference art and final character designs, but that may take me a week or so to get the time...

One more thing... I haven't picked who the new extra chapter will be about. If you have a wish, let me know!

First of all, let me say how excited I am that you guys are bringing Reboot back!  I'm totally stoked and you guys made my life.
Here are some notes that I took (the good, bad, and ugly.)  I'd really like to know if anyone read this, so please comment - especially those in direct involvement with ReBoot creation. -

-          Glitches design changed...again.  It already was changed in ...

You may recognise the Pillsbury Doughboy from his role as the Nefarious Mick Leod, he's now playing the Dr.

A couple of new cast members

Fluffy Bunny is playing Byron Reborr
Fluffy Chic as David Caine

I'm sorry to say that with my outdated technology, Fluffy Bunny will never be the same.

Enjoy!

Maybe you're not old enough to remember, but vinyl records had the most awesome covers. There's so much more room on a big cardboard sleeve than there is on a CD liner, or an MP3 cover art file for that matter. My first record I ever got was Synchronicity by The Police and my second was Business as Usual by Men At Work. These are both still very close to my heart. Hopefully I was channeling some of their vibe when I did this fan art for Morgan Jeske's Gustav Hayes: Lounge Singer of the Apocalypse.

New Art!! Weeee!

You might already have seen our own Crackwalker's fan art for Deutschmaschine:

Quite the epic setting.

And from newcomer Sorchania:


Good stuff all around, and more work for me to return the favor :)
 
Enjoy!

Minus One is a great book - and I look forward to seeing the ongoing series - until then, I'll have to be happy with fan art!

Well it's not really your life, it's another of my sorry fan art projects.  Lucky you, Minus 1 was on my hit list. 

Those of you familiar with my recent attempts at art will be surprised with the effort I put into this one.  It still wouldn't get me a passing grade on a grade 4 art project, but hey, I try, and make do with what I have lying around the old homestead.

This one took me a couple of days.  The "briefcase" was kind of fiddly, but then I realized, it's supposed to be mangled!

I've included page & panel numbers, and if you still can't tell what it is, I've also included script quotes from Minus 1 -The Pitch.

Enjoy (or laugh yourselves silly)

Blondfully Yours

Well, for those of you who saw my pictoral enactment of SQUISH! for the Open Season contest, you're familiar with the fancy schmancy art I produce.  Now I'm here to blow you away with my fan art! 

I did a profile bust of one of the Punks. Yeah, I know, Michelangelo's David it's not.

Please leave your comments here, as I don't check "my galleries".

Blondfully Yours
JMick

I just uploaded some sweet new fanart to the gallery... I have a bunch
of new Graffiti pages, and a really fantastic pin-up of Moondog/Farley
and the nefarious Janitor!

Check it out!

I have also added a cool song to the Hero High Playlist: The Sporting Life by The Decemberists

Check it out too!

And now, for something completely different, I bring you some visual poetry:

This is Crackwalker:

Hey everybody! Just a quick note to point out that there's a new episode of HH: Origins uploaded as of yesterday, and some schweet new artwork in the fanart section.

I've been having a busy couple of days, and it looks like a busy couple more are ahead of me. Such is the life of a hungry comics writer!

This weekend I was at Word on the Street, which is a books festival held in several cities across Canada. I think I have a photo - I haven't had time to download the pix from my camera yet. Anyways, I met a lot of people, some fellow comics creators, some comics readers, and a lot of kids who wanted sketches of stuff - I drew unicorns, geckos, pandas, a bunny, a dog, 2 spider-mans, 2 batmans, a venom, an iron man, the joker, james bond, the spirit, a dragon with a monkey on his back, hannah montana, an evil jester, some portraits of people, including a multi-eyed, tentacled horror of some kind which stopped ...

When first read the Abigail's War pitch, I got a very clear mental picture of the scene where the two brothers come upon Abigail for the first time in the woods. I've finally gotten around to drawing it!

So here it is:



It's not exactly as I pictured it (in my mind, she has a body and is not just a disembodied head) and I realize now as I type this that I forgot the dirt on her face, but this is a fairly accurate representation of what I had in mind.

Quick note: I moved Fetternity's Gregory pin-up to the fan art gallery on my page, for those who somehow missed it!

Hey,

Check out some of the stuff Z2H's member .dc has been up to using the facebook graffiti tool. He's got some great videos up showing his process in creating the Lotus Skull.

And if that's not your flavour, check out the rest. He's done everyone from Harley Quinn to Rorschach.

Later

Lotus

Hey ReBoot lovers! Can I have the following people send me a PM? Thanks!

singingbanana
Shadowbolt
LadyLazuli
slackbot
JenKollic
Guardian Enzo
Squall142
Crackerbox
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Haruhi
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Thanks!

With the understanding that the writer has been chosen for the new ReBoot movies, it continues to make me wonder what the result will be. I'd love to see the series have a new look but still have the essence of the original. Let's not let the movies and graphics follow a fad and have the ReBoot movies be forgotten years down the road.

Think of it this way, the new Batman movie, The Dark Night, has already been reviewed with great results. It has a full story that follows the Joker, Batman, and Harvey Dent, and has great cinematography and special effects to boot. It does things we've never seen in the Batman series. This is what ReBoot needs... a kick in the butt to get a fresh start while breaking boundaries and not relying on gimmicks.

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 Stephan Martiniere

 Conan O'Brien

MJ

Hey guys,

Seems that reaction to the comic has been quit positive and I’m pleased to see that.  All of us worked extremely hard on it and a lot of talented people have sacrificed a lot of time and effort to make something we were all happy with.

But of all the Reboot images that have ever been made I’d dare say that no one has put as much time and effort into an image as I’ve put into this one.  I’d really like to hear your thoughts on it, and if you like it I encourage you to take it and let it spread like a virus throughout the web.  I’m going to post this low res version first but I’ll attempt to post the hi res version on here as well.

All the best and I really appreciate the enthusiasm of the Reboot fans,

Smartens

(Reboot Comic Art Director)

Hey All,

ReBoot Site is up with the new comic. It crashed our site at Midnight PST, enough said.

Cheers,

Howdy folks- Z2H needs you to get the vote out!

The Zeros 2 Heroes campaign to relaunch ReBoot has been nominated for a PopVox people's choice award… but you've only got 5 days to vote! So if you want to see more campaigns like this on Z2H, and if you want to help add fuel to the fire behind the ReBoot comeback, call everyone you know and send them to www.popvoxawards.com to vote.
All the deets on how to vote can be found here: http://rebootcomic.zeros2heroes.com/?p=464

Sound the charge! Spread the word! Vote your little cyber hearts out!...

I'm not sure I have any profound comment on this news item, but I thought someone would have been chatting about it over here. Maybe I've missed that blog?

Anyways, so Rainmaker has done a deal to produce a series of animated movie's based on Stan Lee's new creation, Legion of 5.

Of course, I know for a fact that Rainmaker would be far better off having swung a multi-million dollar deal with me and Z2H for Rip Current....  but any comments on this? Is this good? bad? Is there hope for us newbies when the $$$ are getting used up on the big names?

The article I read: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=fc4097e2-b0c8-4287-888d-96909bb6373a&k=37490

Here's some pics from NYC Comic Con, which I'm presently enjoying. I didn't get to take many today, but rest assured I will take many more tomorrow.

Also, please go and check out my personal pitch and rate some of my materials. I'd really like to win the NSI contest and I need to be in your collections and get rated to win. Thanks for taking the time!

Click her...

I've added a radio play script to my personal pitch . It's about a Canadian spy that gets wrapped up in a time travel conspiracy that, he learns, is perpetrated by a future version of himself. It's called The Janus Contingency, and I implore you to read the preview and gimme 5 (stars, that is).

Go here to find my pitch. Click on my face to launch it.

Also, I'll be at NYC comic con this week (at the Bodog/Ayre Force booth) so stop by and say "where's Professor WhizzyWig?" They'll know what you mean. I'll also post some pictures, maybe over the weekend.

So i've had a few mixed responses to my video game pitch SURVIVAL, about the exploitation of the gruesome, violent aspect of video game culture versus intuitive game play and design.

This, in part, i think was sparked by some of the images i posted of characters, in various torture contraptions or dire circumstances (see image below) to set the mood of the game.

If you haven't seen these yet, i urge you to check out my profile and give your own vote/comments on these supposed 'risque' images on my pitch, as i'm interested to hear the general consensus.

Go to: CREATIONS - PERUSE PERSONAL PITCHES ,

KEYWORD: INSANE RAVEN , PITCH: SURVIVAL

(a little shameless, self pitching never hurt a...

I added a video to my NSI pitch today. It's a short film I wrote and produced for a 72-hour film festival. Please go check it out and give your vote!

To find my pitch, go to the NSI entrants page and search for "jeffrey." My widget will come up.

Thanks, fellas.

PWW

Well, there's been a lot of talk about ReBoot, lately, between the web-comic that is being made and the movies that are underway by Rainmaker. I just thought I would blog about this, as I'm not seeing any concern raised over what are hasty decisions on Rainmaker's part.

Don't get me wrong, I love ReBoot, and would love nothing more than for it's return in one animated form or another, but, from what I know of the situation, this is all wrong. I was so excited when I heard of the initiative to bring ReBoot back, first by letting a fan-picked team create a comic, perhaps to raise excitement about ReBoot and draw in new fans, and then by what is apparently a movie trilogy. Now here's where it all goes horribly, horribly awry...

There is no Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, or Phil Mitchell! (or John Grace, though I'm not sure if he was even involved in season 4) That’s right, as far as I know, there has been no contact between Rainmaker and t...

There is one word in here that makes this analysis at least PG 13; even though there is only one word I just don't want to take an chances. 

One relationship that would be  interesting to portray in future series of Reboot is how Matrix's relationship with his brother Enzo will progress when he becomes a young adult. And what would be interesting is if their relationship is portrayed like Sam and Dean Winchester from the WB's Supernatural series.

First off I don't think that showing Enzo asa young adult means that there will be a second Matrix. If anything it can show how different he is, no matter how similar he looks like Matrix. For one thing Enzo is a Guardian and Matrix is a Guardian Enforcer; both work to protect the net but in different ways.  The difference in his personality will also set him apart. With Matrix, there were signs of his infamous temper when he was little; though Enzo showed signs of the...

Ok, so  I haven't been active. At all. I grant you. However I was browsing my old entires and was inspired to do that examination of Reboot: ReGenerated that I said I would do so long ago. I'd like to do it (The old page where you could view all the pitches is still out there, if you know where to look, so it'd be good info), but I was wondering if you, the Z2H public, would beinterested.

 Of course, half of you wont even look at this blog, but I know that there are those of you who tend to browse the Latest Update list and such, and do click on random blogs, so here I am to ask. What do you think? Should I do an examination of Reboot: ReGenerated, and how with some tweaking, it could have been a very good pitch if ReBoot was looking to restart entirely?

I'll update regualrly. Honest. I swear.*

-Tolan 

*Not really, but I will try.

I'm taking a few of Jessica's brilliant suggestions to heart, and venting off some of my creativity in the meanwhile until the people make up their minds about Alma's fate.

As such, I'm going to write up a little 3 or 4 page mini story, a back-up if you will, developing a secondary character a little bit.

The nature of the story, however, makes it largely silent, with almost no dialogue ["Shocking!" say my detractors!], and will rest squarely on solid illustration.

As such, I'm going to present this as a bit of a challenge, or rather, an experiment, if you will. This is a call to the Z2H artistic community, those with the time or the inclination. I will get the script written up, and I will give it to whoever wants to try their hand at it. What I&...

So, I found this site while re-living my childhood memories of the TV show ReBoot. God how I used to love that show, I'd watch it every thursday at 4:30 on CITV (I'm English, just to clear that up now) and I used to have the PlayStation game too. I loved it, I love the characters, the situations, the references to computers and so on and so forth.

When I realised that ReBoot was being remade, I was astonished - there were other people out there that also liked and remembered ReBoot!

But anyway - I'm not much good at drawing and all that arty stuff, bur I've always had a passion and a flair for writing, so I've decided to start giving this a serious go, to see what I can make of it. I've done little bits of writing before (mainly poems and song lyrics) but I've written some prose that I'm intending to share in bits and pieces.

In refferance to the reboot films, I'm a composer, and would be more than willing to a...

Hey!

I stopped by to say I hope all of you trying to submit ideas for comics are doing well and although my taste is different in comic books, that each of you have some kind of success in the New Year especially Zeros 2 Heroes.

We need more small comic companies to fill the growing void of frustrated fans who feel abandoned. I read some of the responses to Marvel's wonderful decision to erase Peter Parker's marriage from existence. Marvel does Dallas! I'm referring to the TV show that made an entire season of the show a dream. But this isn't any dream. Now fans are looking at dozens of comic book that didn't happen. Great idea guys! Why not kill Captain America while your at it? Oops...

Anyway my friend form college Mike vowed long ago never to buy a Marvel or DC title ever again before this happened. He still buys comics. From Dark Horse! I remembered them as a start up. 

I can't say  how Zeros 2 Heroes will fair but its ni...

"Teeheemonkey" pointed out a press release announcing that Rainmaker has agreed to sell off its VFX properties. Some excerpts:

Deluxe has agreed to purchase the assets of Rainmaker's post production and visual effects operations in Vancouver, British Columbia and the shares of Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects UK Limited, Rainmaker's visual effects operation in London, England (collectively the "Post and VFX Operations")

...

Warren Franklin, CEO of Rainmaker, commented, "The sale to Deluxe will allow Rainmaker Entertainment to fully focus on becoming a world leader in computer animated films and accelerate the development of our own film properties. Our goal is to build a world-class computer animation studio producing family oriented entertainment projects, which historically have been the s...

Recently I was asked to be a guest on a podcast called The Coffee and Tea Show.  So, heck yes, I went to the studio, put on the heavy headphones, and talked about ReBoot, the current revival, and the Zeros2Heroes site.  The show's page has links, of course.

Hopefully this will get the word out to a wider audience, both for ReBoot and Zeros 2 Heroes.

Warning: I also do bad impressions of Mouse and make weird noises into the microphone.

Edit: After a bloody half hour of trying I've given up on trying to convince the blog editor to take a simple link, and the HTML editor doesn't work at all on my poor old computer, so the URL for the podcast is:
http://www.coffeeandteashow.com/index.php?post_id=276919 .

hahaha!

 check me out, writing a blog on this site, I'm awesome like that. So yeah, I've been waiting for the continuation on ReBoot for such a long time! I know,  I know, just as long as everyone else. Seriously though, over 1/3 my life waiting for it, and almost 1/2 my life watching the series!

I was extremely happy with the two movies. By two movies I mean "Daemon Rising" and "My Two Bobs", I do not see them as 8 episodes. I was disgusted on leaving it on a cliffhanger, its a slap in the face for the fans, but I guess I can't really say anything since we are finally getting more!

My fav characters are Hexadecimal - for the fact that when I was right into this show I was in grade 5 and she scared the sh*t out of me! Dot 'cause she's just the best and Phong because, well honestly if you don't like Phong I'd have to question your judgement. My fav eps were within the time frame of Enzo defending the system....

Hi Guys

I had a bit of back and forth with Professor WizzyWig regarding the use of capes.

Ruroshen commented 2 years ago

Consider me old-school, I gues...

When I heard reboot was going to get a revamp, I started generating ideas, I was going to have "the hunt" crush the Mainframers and make Megabyte into some tyrannical ruler who was going to strip mine Mainframe to build a super weapon to conquer neighboring systems.  There was going to be massive fire pit "rendering engines" that would burn day and night giving a dark haze to everything in Mainframe. Megabyte was going to create hideous new zombie binome creations to hunt down any rebellion.  Enzo and Frisket would be held prisoner, forcing Dot to be some sort of administrator for megabyte managing enslaved binomes. I was going to have Bob return with new glitch powers, and Matrix and Andraia doing hit and run guerrilla attacks with a squad of hardened binomes, some of whom had special abilities like codebreaking or stealth.I w...

Yesterday as I went looking for reference for the comic project I started looking through my book collection. I have a nasty habit of buying books and then never reading them or reading them and forgetting I ever bought them.
And what do I find? Disney's Treasure Planet. The making of the movie. I have some great stills of John Silver's cyborg set up. It's not quite right for Matrix. I want his arm to look more like Al from Full Metal Alchemist, but its nice to have.
I also have the Art of Robots! I hated the plot of that movie. It needed so much work. But you can't have a better example of steampunk robots then in that movie. Great stuff for me to work with when designing Ether.
I also found Computer Animation: A Whole New World. Why do I bring that up? It has an entire chapter about Mainframe Inc. and ReBoot with stills from many season 1 and 2. It's been out of print for a while but if you...

It's bucketing down here outside Vancouver today and I have had a few thoughts so I figure I'll jot them down and let them be torn apart by the rampaging crowd at Z2H - because that's what we're here for :)

Reboot - what's not to love about the fist full length CG cartoon to grace our TV's and our imaginations? I remember watching it back when I was working in Australia and enjoying it immensely.

I picked up the playstation game when it came out so I could explore and play in Mainframe too. Not a bad game, would love to see a rebuild for the Ps2 or even Ps3 though.

My first windows 98 desktop theme was Reboot. I used one of those screenshot grabbers that attached to the parallel port and nabbed shots of 'Firewall' for the background, sound bytes for the windows events, and generally had a grand time being somewhat creative.

Experimenting with 3D animation brought me further into Reboot, when using 3D Max and Bryce 3D I created...

In our pitch, all of our main characters (besides Hex) will hold true to their original personalities.  One of the things I was hoping to change was some of their outfits.

In general, I was looking to streamline a few costumes.  Phong, Frisket and the non-"human" looking characters will look exactly the same, but I wanted to give Bob, Enzo and Dot more cloth like attire.