ReBoot

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the new site! I've already seen the anticipation based on the load on the site! I am extremely enthusiastic to communicate further with old and new fans alike.

I thought I'd christen the site with a question that all fans from all areas can answer:

What made ReBoot special to you?

I began watching ReBoot in 1994 when it began to play on YTV. I believe this was back when the PJs were still on YTV.

I believe the most memorable moment was when The Zone played the teaser clip from the first episode of Season 3 ("The rest... didn't make it. Nine? That's all?"). I remembered, since I never noticed the shadowing, how heavy Dot's makeup was all of a sudden.

I have always found I can relate to ReBoot, and throughout the years as I've met many fans and creators and voice actors, I have found a community of great strength and knowledge.

So I leave the question to yo...

As I was cruising the web, I came upon  this url, which offers an interesting look into Enzo's transition to becoming Matrix:
http://aminorglitch.org/look/enzoseye.html

Judging from this author's viewpoint, it seems that Mainframe Entertainment specifically knew where Enzo's character was headed from the start of Season 3, perhaps even during Season 2's run (specifically, the episode, Painted Windows).  Though, if you ask me, that blue figure on the cube cited as evidence very well could be AndrAIa, not Bob.  Though, that's just my opinion.
I just thought this would be an interesting read...

I realise it's hard to get this project off the ground considering the economy and other factors. That being said, I think the best course of action that can be done as of yet is securing Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson as writers again (and of course everyone else involved possible).

It would be a huge sign of goodwill towards us old fans as we loved what they did with the series and seen how the show has been handled in a third parties hands.

Not only would it give us great relief but would give us confidence in Rainmaker. Please, at least give us some news!

Thank you.

Okay.

If ReBoot is going to come back it's going to have to evolve.

I know it and deep down in your heart of hearts, you know it too.

The CGI was groundbreaking at the time and Kudos to all those at Mainframe for producing my favorite TV Show EVER EVER EVER!!!  To move forward it cannot rely on it’s limited fan base to support it, nor can it afford to sink a ton of cash to appease that limited number.

So… think LONG and HARD about this before replying…

WHERE DOES REBOOT GO NEXT?

It has the perfect setting, some most excellent characters and plenty of history to draw...

Welcome to the new reboot.com everyone! 

I just put the site live, and it looks like it's having a little bit of a hard time dealing with all the excitement, but I'm keeping an eye on things and I'll be taking care of any issues that come up tonight.

If you see anything severely busted, be patient (or don't be patient and PM me heh) and we'll get to it as soon as we can..  There are A LOT of you coming here right now..

Sebzilla
Web Sprite
Zeros 2 Heroes Media

Who would like to see the Original show re-rendered and reanimated.

Since i have gained 3d skills over the past year i plan on reanimating the show in HD. Still keeping to the original just new textures, new models, real reflections, zbrush details, good animation(not that reboot had bad animation for its time) and much much more.

So if you have any interest in this and would like to help in any way let me know!
or just voice your opinion here!


PS if you are hiring Rainmaker....PM me :)

-Dan

If I throw Ken and Barbie into the bathtub for a photo op, would that count as fan art?  Blue Jell-o would probably look more like water, but I don't want to try and get that out of Barbie's hair ;) 

What are brownie points anyway?  Chocolatey goodness, the tiny guys from "Willow" or small girl children who sell cookies?  I use the expression brownie points and have no idea what it's in reference to.

Woot!  Woot!  Check out this awesome fan art pic from Atomic Skull out.  Buddy your name should really be Atomic Skillz.



PRETTY FREAKIN AWESOME eh?  I was floored (still am) and I even incorporated Bethany's look into the next 3 pages I uploaded for World Asunder.

Loved the comic. Horah for return of codemaster Lens and everyones virus, Megabyte. I hope future comics and the film trilogy use Megabyte to infect and create "The MegaNet" through his code from Hexadecimal, who infected the Net to stop Deamon. Can not wait to see what will come for ReBoot's Revival.

Alright all you kiddies, you wanted some Nexus Rising Fan Art and look at the gem that PSElliot drew for us.  I have been magnifying and combing over every line and I'm still blown away.  It's amazing.

I'm going to put up some more stuff this weekend.  But take a moment and check out the work that PS did and fan it for him, his pencils are AWESOME (I would rate it but you can't rate your own stuff!)

I've been meaning to get to this for a couple of days now, but work and life and magazine interviews and stuff has intruded and kept me from blogging about THE AMAZING FRIGGING ARTWORK THAT STURSTEIN HAS DONE FOR "INSIDE OUT"!

I am convinced that if you had all seen his beautiful work earlier you would know why I am so stoked to get this book made.

So without further ado, for your enjoyment, first the five personalities residing inside Jenny.

Now individually this is Jan.  She is the youngest:

Next is Jean.  She is studious and smart and great at music.

Third is Jade.  She is the warrior.
 

I finally updated the fan art gallery with the pictures by Will Gibson and Crackwalker! Check 'em out if you missed them the first time!

It is done. I came, I saw, I ate. It was a great trip going to visit the incorrigible JMcleod and her family. The trip coming back went off without a hitch, meaning that I arrived on time. I'll be quite busy for the rest of the night. Got to clean the road filth away and feed myself.

The great Sturstein checked out my pitch The Fox Goddess and sent me a message asking if I wanted some fan art done by him. DUH! He draws awesomely and said yeah, that Heihachi and Hoshiko would love it.

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!

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Shadowbolt
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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