> I was watching a few eps of the "Farewell Jonny Quest" marathon
>and I was paying attention to the artwork done. It is exteremly good for
>the year it was made and what technology was available. Yet it got the ax.
> SWAT Kats has exteremly good artwork for the year it was made and
>the technology available. It got canned too. Seems like there's a
>connection here..........
There is a parallel with the shows' quality, but SWAT Kats and the original
JQ, as good as they may look, didn't really use any "technology". Reminds me of
something Peter Chung was asked in a recent Hollywood Reporter animation issue,
"Are computers used in the production of AEon Flux?", no doubt asked becuase it
looks so high tech. His reply was something along the lines of "Nothing we do
uses techniques that weren't available fifty years ago." And I also recall a
critic making the comment that Akira was an example of the future of animation,
evidentally thinking that most of the animation was somehow high tech as well
(and yeah, I know about the computer graphic aura hologram.) The only thing I
can think of about SWAT Kats that may be high tech is the synthesized music,
and possibly that few seconds of CG, if it *was* CG, in The Pastmaster Always
Rings Twice. But everything besides that in SWAT Kats was done by hand with
tried and true techniques.
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Received on Tue May 07 1996 - 20:20:53 PDT