ReBoot

 Here you go. this is one of the drawings I didn't finish befor the voting ended. For this picture I gave it a black outline. I think it makes it clearer.

I also coloured the hair, eyes and boots black to so there isn't much detail (I'll change that next time)

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Oh and I gave him his yo-yo.

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Yo. Professor WhizzyWig here, back from my week off. Really, it was pretty easy to take a vacation since ReBoot posts have almost completely stopped since last Sunday. Good - my eyes were traumatized from all the reading.

For the duration of the comic creation process, I will be doing regular blog posts. The other creators will likely as well, though I'm not sure how exactly. I think having everyone blog under Arrival_Producer doesn't make much sense. Here's the update for this week:

There's no update. Everyone was taking a week off, it seems. We have a meeting planned for this week where, I hope, everything will be explained in detail. After that, I'll do a full post with all the new info.

For the moment, know that I haven't started the new script. I'm holding off until Rainmaker and I (and the team in general) nail down the parameters of the project (e.g., length of comic; episodic updates versus one-shot upl...

Season 4 cliff-hanger:

Any show that ends on a cliff-hanger always leaves a lingering sense of intrigue.  People naturally wonder what is going to happen, and who doesn't like gabbing with their friends by the water cooler about who they think killed who, or how the story would/should/could end.  Such is also true with the Reboot finale.  Could they have conveniently picked a more dramatic place to stop the series? Simple answer: yes, they could have.  Imagine if they stopped the show right after Daemon's hour glass ran out and her infection across the entire net became complete.   That sure would get a few riots out of the masses.  The "would've/should've/could've's" that you are about to read are going to come from two perspectives: the part of me that is a comic book writer, who feels and thinks what a good story should entail... then we have the obsessive kid who worked at a grocery store and woul...

So, looking on this site made me really realize the passion of people that like comics (and ReBoot of course ;)). It's a passion like I've never seen before and I wanna be a part of it somehow (even if people think that comic book nerds... are nerdy... like star trek fans or something xD... but I don't know anything about star trek either...). It's kinda overwhelmingbecause I find it all so interesting, but I myself know NOTHING about western comic books at all ><". Heheh... can anyone tell me where to start?

Also, another question... I've never had an art class or anything so I don't know about "perspective", "lighting", umm... well and anything else that's important to making a pic look good... but I really like to draw. Are there any good books anyone reccommends? And not just for comic books... like... real traditional art like the kind you can do in college or something! I know I can never be that great or ...

I just came back from Dragon*Con, which is, I believe, the second largest multifandom con in the US.  I went with a fellow ReBoot fan, and for 4 days we stayed in the hotel, went to panels, bought stuff, walked around in costume, posed for pictures, collected autographs, fell in love with Vic Migniola (but didn't learn how to spell his name), haunted the con suite, and generally escaped from Real Life to act like total nerds for a while.  It was glorious.

On a conference call with Rainmaker and Z2H about a month ago I suggested putting out flyers for the ReBoot Revival at the con.  People scour the grab-me tables for stuff that might interest them, so why not use that for ReBoot and Z2H?  Well, that never happened (siiigh) but I did wear my icon and ReBoot shirt, and pimp the revival to anyone who commented on them.  Most fans were stunned and then thrilled to hear about ReBoot coming back.  Only a few already ...

*sigh*

Just a really quick random crap I drew last night (my first time drawing a Binome! Omg, those things are so fun to draw! Specky <3!)... just thought I'd share cuz um :(... I donno. Just a filler for something else I hope I've finished by tonight >=D.

Anyways, I really appreciate all the comments on my last pic thing ;-; I wish there was a "reply" option so I could reply to them. If you wanna talk or anything though feel free to send me a PM, or you can find me on DA (my account name is turynn there too ^^).

As always I know I shouldn't be torturing people with my pics... but I can't help it cuz I want to... SPREAD THE REBOOT LOVE! :D

In other news, I doubt anyone here knows Gentaro Araki or his Unoa Quluts series, but I managed ...

I've become an absolute Matrix/AndrAia shipper. My favorite ever. And it's not so much the characters I love, it's their relationship (they're uber-cool too). Sure, Zuko and Katara are meant to be together, as similarly Roxas/Namine, Ron/Hermione, Shuuichi/Yuki, etc. are all meant to be together, but for these other couples their relationship isn't what most appeals to me.

For Matrix/AndrAia it is. Their relationship is one of the best "realistic" and most beautiful portrayals out there; for other ships the individuals were brought together because "they were fated for each other" and the challenges they face most oft come from without. This is true somewhat for M/A's relationship but unlike others, it is not the whole of the relationship. They fight, they annoy each other, have different views, but at the root of it all is their unchanging and unbreachable trust for each other. It even confounds the infection that is Daemon's ...

In my recent post I mentioned ladybard's fanfic the "Daemon Conflict." In it Bob and Matrix get infected and to make a long story short turn into monster version of themselves.

  I finally found the picture of Matrix as Valadare which is done by the artist Water Mist.

I agree with you guys that Enzo should look like his old self, but I think there should be a feral look to him. Maybe as an avatar he should look something like Valadare but toned down.

What do you guys think?

It is time. For anyone who remembers how reluctant I was to use Deviant I figured I had to start over. RoeBoot no more. Since I have so much trouble showing art a Zeros 2 Heroes this is the best option I had. Everything I did and will do for the comic will be posted here.

Please stop by and say hello.

I get so many ideas I sometimes got to write something down. This ficlet is based on the unknown aftermath of the Arrival plot.

I don't know if this is still true but according to Prof W, no one has really captured Avatar Enzo in art.  Somehow I started to remember ladybard's story the Daemon Conflict, where Bob and Matrix get infected but instead of becoming cult members they became monsters.

Has anyone read this fanfic? The  point is I remember  a picture of Matrix as Veladare and how feral he looked.  I think that Enzo as an Avatar should be drawn in a similar way, or at least in essence. 

I don't know but I remember liking ladybard's version of Daemon Conflict than the actual version.

I know I am writing this from a really biased viewpoint right now. I picked the winning team from day one and stuck with them. I tried to be a little fairer, but that didn't quite work either. Its no good lying to myself I could be fair when my mind was already made up. So to review, I'd figured I'd explain why I the other pitches fell short for me.

ReBoot 2.0 - Its sad to see a good plot die due to a lack of any flexibility I could see. The set design needed more defining. The character designs that were shown weren't working for me. Especially HellBob. I know there are people who have heard it before but stick a cigar in that Bob's mouth and try to tell me he does look l...

ReBoot Fans TOTALLY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!
 

You guys and gals are ALL awesome.  I had a BLAST being there and meeting you all and I want to send waves of love and respect right back atcha.  I wish we'd had a longer panel, I wish GB had been able to remember all his questions, and I wish the INCREDIBLE ReBoot CosPlayers had won Best in Show...

Oh, wait...

THEY DID!!!  WHOOO-HOOOOO!!!!!

Awesome.

Stay Frosty, one and all!

Sincerely

Gavin Blair

Oh the days of high school and college. Back when I had different dreams and ideas. I went to The High School of Art and Design and had a club of friends who loved comic books, Doctor Who and Transformers. I wanted to be in the comic drawing club in my last year of school but ended up in Computer class instead and got rewarded for excellence in a field in its infancy.

divinerose... commented 4 years ago

I knew changing my name would ...

Okay. The voting is over. And what was pretty much clear has come to pass. Arrival didn't start off as the best pitch to many of us. It was the least of the worst ideas we saw in the beginning.

Sorry, I didn't make the deadline, have spent just this weekend on the project ... so no cookies for me :( Anyway, it was fun and a great experience, especially to compare the great work of the others with my own (different solutions etc.). Hope there will be similiar projects in the future. My pages/drawings actually didn't turn out like I wanted to, haven't draw sequentials for like 2 years.

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So here my 2 pages (page 3 will follow soon), hope you guys like it :

Professor WhizzyWig here. Well... we won. Woot! Since you all know I'm AWESOME at long blog posts, I figured it was time for a nice round-up of the contest. Let me begin with the congratulations...

Yay for the artists! Endian, Ale Aragon, Enzo, and Divineroseboot. These guys really went over the top with their wild submissions. I guess I'll be working with you guys, eh? Meeting onMonday! In my office! I don't care if you live in Hawaii!

Yay for the fans! That's every one of you who posted a fanart, a fanfic, a blog, a comment, and/or a rating - and, in most cases, all five. This was an ascii-load of fun wasn't it?

Yay for us! Well, seriously... Shaun (smartens) was incredibly prolific. He probably did more actual hours of work on this project than anyone else on our team (well, maybe it just seem...

I just read the results and I want to say congrats to Arrival! Good luck with the WebComic and I hope it brings more attention to ReBoot and I'm sure we'll really enjoy it!

Congrats to the Artists chosen as well!

I saw my name listed in the Clicks Counted section. that was unexpected but it was really cool. Thanks!

Thanks for your patience: all of the new information is now posted in the ReBoot section.

The winning pitch: Arrival ! And they have done an awesome job from day one. Big congrats go out to the other teams, of course, but Arrival really owned this competition.

We're now gearing up for the webcomic: you can see the selected artists here . There is an excellent blend of talent and I'm sure we're going to get a great comic.

Some new FAQs have also been posted that address most of the hot questions we fielded at FanExpo. Let me know if there is anything that I've missed.

But above all, I want to thank all of you - fan...

Tolan! Tolan! You missed the end of the ReBoot competition!

 Tolan! Arrival won!

Tolan! You never finished your examinations!

 Tolan! Tolan! You never showed how awesome ReBoot ReGenerated could have been with some tweaking!

 Thank you folks. I'm aware.

I've been busy with school. Between that and the fact that Arrival was going to win anyway, I thought, "Eh, let it be." So I let it be. Not that I didn't care or didn't want to finish those things (I really did. Badly), I just had school coming up and needed to focus on that.

Sorry guys. ^^;

So Arrival won. And there was much rejoicing.

Yes, I will be commenting on this new thing. Just in a different blog entry. Later. Like, between now and tomorrow night. ^^;

-Tolan

Now first off I wanted to say congratulations to everyone involved with The Reboot pitch Arrival. It definitely has a lot what made Reoot so great and I think that is because of this entire process that allows a flow of views from the fans and the creators. It is a very delicate balance but also a very informative one. I was in the audience when they announced the winner and the room was packed. It was full of people who were there for reboot. To see all the passion everyone here on this site and others was great. This process is helping to bridge the gap between the creators and the fans allowing for something that is better than either could of done alone. Also seeing the process from concept to comic will create a connection that will be hard to beat. I don't know who reads these things but I do want to say that eveything I have seen here has inspired me to start my own writing project.

One of the things I liked about Regenerated is that it could go in different directi...

I got the theme to Raw hide in my heard but instead of rolling, rolling, rolling, it waiting, waiting, waiting.

Professor WhizzyWig here. I wasn't able to attend the Expo unfortunately, so I too am waiting for the official announcement. If someone hears it at the Expo please blog it immediately!

As I mentioned before, the Arrival team will be taking the next week off (once the winner is announced) so you probably won't hear from us much at all. Don't worry - we still love you. We're just burnt out. :)

Once more, I'd like to thank you all for the submissions to my two awesome contests. If you submitted something, please PM me (Professor WhizzyWig) your real street address so I can send you the promised mint-viral icing cookie. If you PMd your address to Arrival_Producer, please send it to my personal account (Professor WhizzWig). Smartens, On Fire-Wire, and myself are sharing the Arrival_Producer account and stuff tends to get lo...

Hey, pretty new to this site and pretty confused on how to use it - but whatever.  I love ReBoot so I'm glad to be here and glad that it'll soon be re-establishing its place in the world.

 Anyways, just a quick drawing to share.  Comments on the crappyness not necessary ;_; I know I'm bad at drawing and worse at coloring, and should really not be posting this here.... but I can't help it cuz I wanna... SHARE THE REBOOT LOVE :D.

The part in "Daemon Rising" where Hex referred to Dot as her sister amused me to no end, so I wanted to draw a picture of their... "sisterly love" ^_^. 

Hi everybody!


I'll be posting up a full report of the FanExpo on ReBootRevival.com sometime this coming week! It will have photos and videos for all to enjoy(I'll also post up a copy here too). :D

It's been  a real blast meeting Gavin Blair in person, along with the Zeros 2 Heroes staff. I mainly spent all three days at the Beach-Studios/DMF Comics booth chatting with Gavin. I also was in a Zeros 2 Heroes panel today, with Matt Toner and Paul Gertz, as we explained the process to fans who hadn't been to Z2H along with announcing the winning pitch and answering questions. I saw Jim Su again, always a nice guy to talk to and I picked up the third issue of his comic, Crozonia .

I even signed...

An old binome shook his head as he glanced from his corner of junk at the vidwindow just outside.

"Fools they be," he said to himself, more annoyed than anything else.

Looking at the jumble of formats on the screen, broadcasted from the Supercomputer via 5-second delay to present to the denizens of the Net just how they would be rid of the current scourge, he knew his kind were not a trustworthy bunch. Even less than the viruses. "Fools they be, all of them."

And he also knew that he still hadn't found that cup, but he thought he might have seen it last second. So he stared at one pile for a nano, scanning it for hints but not quite finding any, and jumped in.

"I know ye be in here, lassie..."

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The Prime Guardian checked over the report once more. Something just didn't process right with him, although he might have chalked it up to just being suspicious of the Guild by default. After a...

As we await the voting to come in I decided to bring up the decision to turn Young Enzo into an Avatar. I am not totally turned off on the idea but I am concerned how it gets handled.

Guardian E... commented 4 years ago

Hmmm. Judging by the time thi...

Yeah, I hate to admit...but I am slow... I've been working on it since Monday and I am very sorry, that I wasn't able to finish all the pages. And even what you can see here is rather a work in progress than a finished product. I'd just added some flat colors here and there (slightly darker to work on lights later) for a general idea cause I didn't have enough time to shade it properly. :(

Ok, I know I probably don't deserve a cookie, but since it took some time to create I thought I would put it up anyway. Hope you like it!

Oh yeah, and this is probably my last entry before the BIG day...so to whole Arrival team...consider this my Big last (ok, maybe not last :) THANK YOU for everything you've done for us devoted fans in last few weeks. It was my pleasure to share opinions, ideas and art with you! :D

p.s just click a pic for larger view .)

I remember Reboot from way back when, it was the first fully CGI snimated cartoon. It make sense in a way to use the computer to create it because of where technology was. The show grew a lot and was able to get very adult storylines as it wen't on and that is something that made me come back to it and watch it. Reboot reimagined will be interesting because there are so many ways you can go. I think I would like a couple characters from the original series in it that tie into the cliffhanger ending of the last movie. It should be enough to get old fans interested in uncovering what did happen when megabyte had taken over and also provide a mystery that new fans can uncover. I think that this would help to ease the transition. I hope it takes place years after the original and that everything has changed. I hope that games are incorporated I found the use of games, and pop culture references a part of what made the show so great. To feel like Reboot those little cues mean a lot. ...

This is the third of three fan art pieces that I'm submitting for the "ReBoot: Regenerated" pitch.

This is the second of three fan art pieces that I'm submitting for the "ReBoot: Regenerated" pitch.

This is one of three fan art pieces that I'm submitting for the "ReBoot: Regenerated" pitch.

This is a piece of "Dot" fan art I'm submitting for the "ReBoot2.0" pitch. It's my first time here at Zeros2Heroes and I'm still trying to get a hang of things.

Okay, the first one is a terrible color combo on PURPOSE.  Because then all I have to do for the rest is fill in different colors.  :D
I know this is cuttin' it close, but come on!  Sunday isn't here yet (at least, for California! ;) )
Plus right now I'm just padding text so this big monsterous ugly color version of Vectordoesn't assault the bloglist thinger.
Okay I think we're safe.
I repeat myself, there will be more colors posted after this.  Just give me a few minutes to fill in different colors. (LOL)
I call this one the 'Short School bus'

Here it is. sorry I didnt get it all done. I could have saved some time by not coloring it by hand but to late.

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Here are all three pages for WhizzyWig's script pitch. To see full image displays, please go to:

Arrival Comic: Page 1

Arrival Comic: Page 2

Arrival Comic: Page 3

Okay, there was a 3-1 majority for which of the three faces I designed for Vector would be the one I'd develop on.  I wish I had more time to work on this today (I had a bunch of errands to run today to collect supplies for my classes this semester.)  But I managed to jam this 3/4th view of the favored design for Vector's face that I hope to use on the costume I designed for Vector as well.

 By the way guys, I gotta give you the heads up.  I'm cutting tomorrow off as my last day of putting all my artistic efforts into this ReBoot revival.  I have a full workload of classes this semester, and I don't want to fall behind.  So Saturday is the last day I can spend all my drawing time on this stuff.  After this, I'm limited to during-class doodles or 'gosh, I finished all my homework early' doodles, or 'gosh, I sure am procrastinating a lot' doodles. (LOL I predict the last one will happen a lot!  XD) ...

"How does he do that?"

"What? Get everyone else to do all the work?"

"Yeah."

"People would do anything for cookies!"

Okay. Here goes. The Professor said we could try both so I did. I have to confess that I had more trouble making three pages then doing one page. I actually had to fill the end with a bounce off the existing script to finish it.
Think of it as flatterly Professor.
The font looks like its bigger then 12 point Courier again. And its not cooperating. Darn bugs!

INT:  REBEL BUNKER – KITTS SECTOR

All right, I can't do any more full comic pages— I'm beat and I have summer homework to do all this weekend. But I still want to submit something, so I'll just be posting little snippets of the Arrival dialogue, or what I think are the most important parts of it.

Prof. wanted to see some of the mushy stuff between Bob and Dot, so here you go! Just a quick snapshot. Again, no major redesigns. Bob sure looks emo, doesn't he?

I gave Dot earrings. So nyah! I've always wanted to.

Next is the Mainframe skyline, all battered up.

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You know, as much as I love the whole Hex-Bob crazy I'll-kill-you relationship, Dot and Bob are... pretty cute together...

...Blasphemy! *slaps self* 

Okay, like I said I wanted to do yesterday, I did some Vector face sketches!  Just three for the moment, but I'm willing to draw more if need be.

 Vector Face 1.  Didn't realize until I got it on the scanner how... UBER girlyhe looked.  Haha.  Effeminate Vector, anyone?

 Simple.  For this one, I plan on giving him black skin with bright yellow spots of color under his eyes, and across his nose (or all over his face to make him look diseased!  j/k), much like those poison dart frogs in the Amazon.

For this one,...

 Ok, now that everyone's eyes are on the ReBoot subject, I have a few ideas I think someone should cover. Now They very well might have been covered already in some long forgotten episode in my mind. I want it be known that I really enjoyed the show back in the day, but I don't claim to be an expert-and my memory happens to be terrible. Without further ado: 1.I would like the userto cheat in a game. Not fair for the good citizen's of Mainframe right? Right. But I think that it could have a good moral in the end. All the good citizens of mainframe could enter the game and like kick the user's ass for putting in cheat codes. 2.Lag. I think that there should be a character named Lag somewhere in there to add some more comedic relief. He could slow anything down to a crawl just by touching them. It would have a humorous effect on the user for sure, not to mention any of the guardians. 3.Another idea I have is the concept of new hardware. What if the user decides ...

Much to my dismay, I can't make it to Fan Expo this year. I found about it too late and I couldn't budget for it. As much as I'd like to see Gavin Blair, surrounded in all it's Con-ish glory, it's just not happening. Thankfully, I have friends, in near aprox to me, that I can hand over things to get signed.

 I met up with Bluemuse this afternoon and handed over my ReBoot poster and my artbook (already signed by Jim Su) to get Gavin branded. I also passed on a few of CC's things from Anime North 2007 that he didn't get back from the car after Pirates 3, including his Domo-kun stuffie cube, and his VGCats poster.

 I also hope they're allowed to record the Art of ReBoot panel that they're attending. I really would like to see it.

Enjoy, for all of those who are going. Make sure to tell others how it was. Post pictures too!

~AW~

This is where my mind wandered after reading JenKollic's and Guardian Enzo's entries.   It probably goes over the 1 page, but I couldn't help it.  Every time I hit enter, it double spaced.  I'm not sure how to get around it, so I'm going to leave it alone.

**Edited to fit the 1 page requirement.   I think I got it anyway.**

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Dot's eyes grew wide.  "N-n-noo..." she denied on a stuttering breath. She watched in shock as the small avatar used her little brother's face to form a pout.  "But, Sis, aren't you happy to see me?"

Command.com programming flew out the window, and Dot began struggling in earnest against the Code Masters hold.  Bob grabbed Dot as she almost got way from Lens.  "SPAMMIT! NO....LET ME GO!  THAT'S MY LITTLE BROTHER!!"

The Avatar using her siblings face giggled at her...

I'm quickly throwing out a thought here based on the Arrival concept of Bob being the new Prime Guardian.

Okay, I just thought I'd come in with my own rendition of an Arrival scene. It should still qualify for the contest, even though it's two pages, not just one, because I'm actually doing TWO scenes, not just one. ProfWW, you can check. Each scene is exactly one page long at size 12 font. Just so you know I'm not trying to be deceitful. Anway, here it is.Tell me what you think.

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“Glitch, key,” Bob commanded. The tear which had been floating above the sub-sphere instantly stabilized into a portal. Through it, they could all see the distorted, but beautiful, image of the shining cities of the supercomputer; Enzo’s future home for the next several minutes. He had already said his goodbyes to all except those present. 

“You sure you won’t come with us, Matrix?” Bob asked for the last time, “It’s all you ever...

I know I might be getting a little too far ahead of myself in thinking this up, but this is one particular part of the ReBoot franchise I would love to see done proper justice. Hopefully I won't get a whole bunch of "Oh let's just get the show back up and running to start with.." but I would like to start discussing this topic with some collectors, as to what we'd like to see if and when new merch becomes an issue. It all starts with the show getting up and running again and getting popular, and then the buissness aspect of funding and all that technical stuff, but just as there is the freedom to talk about stuff for the show here, I can't see why a smaller, easier subject such as this couldn't be discussed also.

This is just to throw the line out there, to see if there are some fans ready to seriously discuss about what stuff they'd like to own. I once read on here that the big dogs look on this site to see how much of an audience they are ...

Can-canning binomes for your viewing pleasure. I promised there'd be pink. And fishnets. You got it.

Oh, and I can't draw Bob. The end.

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Please, PLEASE, do I get a cookie now? 4 pages in 4 days... I love doing these but... I *have* to sleep! I know I didn't have to do color and all that, but I'm a hardcore perfectionist... I couldn't settle for just sketchies!

This page was a lot of fun, though. ^_^ I just have to take a break tonight. *cracks knuckles* Night y'all.

So this only took me forever and a day to finish.  :P My last blog entry was asking for opinions so I could redesign the 2.0 pitch's Bob and Dot, which I started on right away- but the very next night something unknown struck me and I was pretty horribly sick.  So it's taken me a bit to get back into the swing of things. 


I realize  the 2.0 pitch is pretty much dead in the water at this point anyway, but I was determined to follow through, dernit.  XD; So, here it is, with further explanation to follow.

 

I know, I know- he looks a little too young.  I think it's an issue of his jawline, which I didn't figure out until it was far too late.  u.u Apologies for that inaccuracy~


Anyway, about the outfit: I...