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.

I definitely think that they should at least let Gavin Blair have some sort of involvement. At least let him give some input and include some of his ideas to keep the old true fans (all of us involved in this whole revival process) happy.

I need as many of the original voice actors as possible too. They made the characters and are very iconic.

I guess the moral of the story is, and what I've been saying all along, is I don't want a COMPLETELY different ReBoot. Right now, all I care about is having the original characters with preferably the same voices and a good plot. Don't just rely on new technology in graphics and gimmicks to sell the movie. Give it substance. That's up to the writer and whole creative team. I don't need this to be like a Spy Kids movie that's childish, has a poor story, and relies on special effects (sorry to Spy Kids fans). I'd hate to see a complete boycott of the movies happen due to a mob of unhappy fans. Of course, it's up to the creative team to make a movie that won't let that happen. If people don't like the first movie then they definitely won't want to see another two.

Also, what's going to sell this movie is having it not only appeal to youth but also be interesting for parents. If parents like it, they'll support the kids interest. If the kids have support, they'll continue enjoying the rebooted ReBoot.

Rainmaker basically has to get it perfect for the first movie. Have all the new looks of the characters and special effects to catch a new crowd of people, but keep some of the essentials for the old fans, the people who brought ReBoot this far already. Let's face it, without us liking things about the original series, we would have never been lead to love the show the way we do and basically demand this revival. I want to see that awkward blooming relationship between Dot and Bob, the cunning and independent Mouse, the goofy happy-go-lucky Enzo with his buddy Frisket, the wise and yet sometimes senile Phong, not sure what they're doing for villains in the movie but at least have the crazy sexy seductive Hexadecimal even if she's just there as another sprite, just as long as her character is in their. This is just to name a few.

So:

1. Keep original cast of characters (of course can add more characters)

2. Keep original voice actors as much as possible

3. Strong plot!!!

4. Keep original characters' temperament and way of acting (change the odd subtle thing)

5. Go wild and have really nice appeasing graphics and updated looks

6. Be innovative

7. Keep it ReBoot!

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 the Creators of ReBoot, the writers, directors, and overall MAKERS of the whole series. Mind you, I'm not on the inside or anything, and am going on what I've heard, but if I'm wrong about this, then treat this all as hypothetically speaking.

Now I'm sure we all are aware that our own Jeff Campbell-Prof Whizzywig, the writer of Team Arrival's Reboot: Code of Honour,has even done a pitch for Rainmaker. With all due respect, this is not the man to continue the series. I'll get to more on that later, however. This would be all fine and dandy if everyone previously involved in ReBoot was no longer with us, and in that case Jeff is definitely a fine choice to evolve the series, but they're fine as far as I know, and I'm some of them, if not all would be interested in this opportunity.

The series is fine in their hands. ReBoot would be nothing without those four individuals. They always offered something new two the series. Whenever you thought it was maybe finished, after it going off the air for a year or so, BAM! They gave us a new season full of fresh new, Reboot. They've done perhaps unorthodox things, like sending Bob away, aging Enzo and AndrAIa and it seems, everything in season 4. These all turned out to become just exactly what the fans loved about the series. (I know season 4 would have too, if the rug had not been pulled out from under their feet...besides I loved every minute of it, including My Two Bobs. Trojan horse Megabyte was awesome.) ReBoot went from an episodic child-centric cartoon, to a dark and immensely intriguing epic, and kept on going from there. Don't you think we owe the people that did this just a little?

Now I know that since the "conclusion: of ReBoot these guys left Mainframe, and since THEN Rainmaker acquired Mainframe, but the fact that the first people they called when Rainmaker decided to resurrect the series, WASN'T Gavin or Ian, just tells me that there is no way this can go right. I think especially Gavin would be able two undertake this project. (Not sure if Ian is interested or not) At the FanExpo, Gavin talked about how he'd be willing to come back if he was wanted, (though this could be in reference to the Expo, itself, and not the ReBoot production) but regardless, he goes on to say that "we got the show back" and to go onto Zeros2Heroes and start bugging them. Now, would you be this excited if your wonderful work, that you've been working on for like 7 years, that has evolved into a massive phenomena, was being reopened, but you weren't allowed to work on it 'cause you didn't own the rights, and you just got to sit back and watch it all go to hell? This isn't fair to Mr. Blair

Now, some may argue that ReBoot failed because of Gavin and the others, they just ran out of steam and kind of crapped out. This is not the case. Season 4 was meant to be just as epic as the previous one, but a sad series of cut-backs, lack of interest by the networks, etc., led to the season falling from 16 episodes, to 12, to the 8-episode/2 movie, thing that we've seen. Believe me when I say that it was supposed to be better then it was. There was going to be a conclusion; elaboration on Megabyte's ominous "hunt", and now the great Tony Jay is no longer with us, and we'll have to settle for his cryptic speech, his last words as Megabyte for any sort of closure. But, voice or no voice for MB, Gavin and Ian have or at least HAD a plan for the conclusion to the biggest cliff hanger in the history of forever, and would really just be sick and twisted not to let THAT at the very least, see the light of day. Please, Rainmaker, reach out salutations to the writers of ReBoot that we know and trust. Let them, if interested, make a movie to end ReBoot as THEY envisioned. You even said that the trilogy could very well be made of a stand-alone movie and a two-parter. After that, I think a fresh, new story would be awesome, perhaps even with the cooperation of Gavin and Ian, overseeing it or something.

The point is, this is not the time to try and reinvent ReBoot or pass the future off on new writers, the old ones have just as much integrity as ever, and as they've proven before, they can add new twists to it, and I'm sure could make the series appeal to today's audience. It's only been 7 years. The biggest complaint I've heard from ReBoot fans is that it was never concluded. The Comic, Code of Honour cannot be treated as a quick answer to this much-needed conclusion, to be followed by completely new ReBoot stories in the movies. I'm sorry, Jeff, I've got nothing but respect for you, and I realize you have your career to think of, but although I will read the comic, I can't treat it as canon, as I'm sure many people agree on, and the same goes for any movie, whether it be written by you, or anyone else who has not brought the series up from it's humble beginnings. The comic, as I saw it, was just a process in the revival of ReBoot, to raise enthusiasm and new fans for the series. "Wow, a professionally-made ReBoot comic! That's cool-can't wait for them to make those movies, so I can see how they’re gonna end that big cliff-hanger!" The comic and any movie that does not have the cooperation of Gavin, Ian, Phil, or John, is nothing more then a well-done fanfic, that happens to be endorsed my the company that bought out the company that used to make ReBoot. I know a LOT of people thinks this as well.

Rainmaker, all I ask is that you contact these guys, and at least give them a chance. Let them pitch THEIR ideas. Who better then the guys who've been doing it all along. It's only fair, and I think it's the only way this venture will become successful. Come to think of it, Whizzy mentioned something about other pitches being made by "very established writers" I guess a guy can hope that those are Gavin and Ian, though I doubt it...

Anyways, if anyone actually read this, thanks a lot! Even if you just skimmed it!

Naruto

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 infamous Matrix temper it was only because he was confused. Once he realized he was his own person he calmed down some. He also seems to be a bit smarter since he was the only one who knew or cared that Glitch Bob was the real Bob.

To me that shows that Enzo will grow up to be more cool headed and more easy going. I also think it shows he has more maturity.

Enzo as a young adult will also add some more conflicts for him and Matrix . Matrix will have trouble seeing him as a young man annoying Enzo and yet at the same time they can grow closer. 

Matrix and Enzo's future relationship has the possibility to be portrayed similarly to Dean and Sam's relationship, which is one of the reasons why Supernatural is such a big hit.

For those of you who don't know what Supernatural is about here is what hopefully is a brief description from tv.com:  Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way.

It is funny to watch these two guys because even though I don't have any brothers, from others who do say that it the show is realistic. I can also see Matrix and Enzo having the same fights and friendship in the future.

Dean: Sam, this plane is going to crash, okay? So quit treating me like I'm freakin' four!
Sam: (very calmly) You need to calm down.
Dean: Well, I'm sorry I can't!
Sam: (still calm) Yes, you can.
Dean: Dude, stow the touchy-feely, self-help-yoga crap. It's not helping! (edit)

http://www.tv.com/supernatural/phantom-traveler/episode/465117/trivia.html

I doubt Matrix will sound just like Dean, but he probably would say something similar around those lines.

Another episode called "Faith" shows how Sam takes care of Dean and vice versa. What i funny about it is that it is more in argument than sentimental and something I can see Matrix and Enzo argue:

Dean: Man, you're a lying bastard. I thought you said we were going to see a doctor.
Sam: I believe I said a specialist.

Another episode called Route 66 shows how the Winchester brothers works:

Sam: Where are you going?
Dean: I'm going for a little ride.
Sam: What?
Dean: I'm gonna lead that thing away. (pointing to the truck) That rusted piece of crap, you've gotta burn it.
Sam: How the hell am I supposed to burn a truck, Dean?
Dean: I don't know. Figure something out.

If you  put in Enzo as Sam and Matrix as Dean and put some Reboot terms in it isn't that far fetched. Also add a Bob with his head in his hands and you get a very interesting episode.

For the sentimentality well is snippet from "The Benders" episode, where Dean has to rescue Sam from a backwoods family that hunt humans and for trophies collect human body part:

Dean: Don't ever do that again.
Sam: Do what?
Dean: Go missing like that.
Sam: You were worried about me!
Dean: I'm just saying, you vanish like that again and I'm not looking for you.
Sam: Sure you won't.
Dean: I'm not! (edit)

Relationships between these two brothers should be explored, especially with Enzo as an older teen. This will create tension between the two but could also pull them closer together. I am not saying this should in every episode but it would be nice to see it more than in season 4.

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 add some music to the films. If you'd like a listen, I'm going to be adding some to my myspace soonish - I play acoustic stuff mainly, though I can composr more techno stuff, and metal too.

So yeah, thanks for reading through all this, it's appreciated, and I hope to get to know you all soon.

Matt

Hmm hmm~ I'm just gonna post enough words here so my pics don't show up on the main blog page cuz that's kind of embarrassing xD;~ so they're inside... blah blah blah... is this enough text yet?

Yay, OK! My sis had a birthday party tonight so I had a choice between sitting in deafening loud music with a bunch of kids I don't know or taking refuge in the computer room with my dad. No brainer there :D.

Heehee! As much as I love Dot and Mouse's current sorta sisterly relationship... I gotta admit I kinda miss the rivalry ^0^. I won't tell you the words Mouse said to Dot to make her mad like this... I'll leave it up to your imagination. But I will tell you it involved a certain blue guardian in his younger days :3. Oh yeah, and I have a lot of trouble making a angry face in this style :/... to me, Dot's eyes still look very dead. Are there any suggestions how to make more convincing psychotic angry faces?

The next pic is really big so you don't see half the chars in it u_u (Dot, Daemon, Binome girl...) click to see the full picture~ <3.

Mister Popularity...

(haha! really bad pic I know! but it was more for the idea than anything else XD...)

A 5 minute doodle cuz I have not drawn young AndrAIa before. To be honest ... I only like young AndrAIa and young Enzo >_<; I am not much a fan of Matrix or mature AndrAIa ^^;; *gets shot*.

OK! COVER YOUR EYES FOR THE NEXT ONE 'KAY? ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CUTE OR ANIME-PHOBIA! ........... Fair warning >x<

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Another 5 minute doodle ... I decided a while ago to stop drawing anime and to definitely never draw anime-esque reboot pictures... but I saw some rb fanarts that were ever so slightly anime inspired... and they were SOoOoO cute I couldn't help it >_<;.... anyways AndrAIa's supposed to kinda be sorta like an angel fish but I don't really know how they look soooo yeah.

Anyways, now that that's over with... I'm gonna do something I don't really do that often cuuz I am an non confrontational type of person... but I just feel like saying what I think. As far as Dot's design goes, I hope she keeps her big, short hair. I really like it that way ^^. I think she looks a bit too wonder-woman with long hair o_o. I have seen it in some fanarts, and while the arts are lovely <3 I think she's just so much more dot-ish with her hair. Of courseee... if it changes in a ReBooted form (like her Evil Dead hair) that's pretty cool ^^. Also, in future incarnations of ReBoot, I hope to see Dot's hesitance to show her feelings for Bob retained. It just freaked me out when she was all giddy and kissy with megabob in season 4 o_o;. Of course... that's how a bride really would be... but I don't want the fact that Dot almost got married to... "a bob" bump their relationship up to a new level. I still like experiencing the relationship's journey as a viewer~. Dot needs some more confidence though I think -_- I mean... in every aspect of her character. I know that losing her dad, crush, bro, city, mentor, etc in rapid succession would kinda put a big strain on herrr but... ah I don't know. I am so bad at expressing my thoughts in words :D" I just have some expectations of Dot in the future <3.

Pointless words, words, words!

So, what do you think?  Is she gonna invite him in for tea, or kill him =D? 

Weird doodle cuz I wanted to try a bg since I've never really done one before.  Ehh... it's hard!   I know Bob looks really stupid xD I have to hurry cuz I gotta go do my math homework before it's too late....

Anyways, I finally got my ReBoot artbook =D it's .... soooo awesome.  It's definitely helpful for my comic!

 Something I don't get about fanart though... how do you distinguish a fanart as for being for a pitch or not :/?  I was looking at some but a lot of the character designs are different... which ones are the real ones?  Also... is it even ok to draw a fanart for  a pitch anymore since the voting is over XD;...?  *Stupid*.

Looking at Arrival's story it seems there will be no conflict between Dot and Bob. Good. What did worry me was the fact that there might be conflict between Bob and Matrix. This has been done in Season 4, and even though I have seen one episode (Nullbot of the Bride), I have read enough episode guides to know that the Mainframers were completely out of character.

One conflict that wasnot explored in season 4 was between Enzo and Matrix. It was explored to the extent of Enzo realizing in his own abilities but it never showed how the two acted in each others company.  Yeah I know we saw them react when Matrix was infected but we don't know he acts or thinks about Enzo.

In Number 7,  when faced to face with his younger self Matrix looks terrified and takes a step back and says "No...not you." He even feels like he has to defend his actions and who he has become, when before he doesn't feel the need to.

Then the restart happens and Enzo appears. While Matrix might have forgiven himself, seeing Enzo had to have effected him some how.

I think team Arrival should focus on this conflict instead of another Bob vs. Matrix conflict. For one thing, Enzo and Matrix conflict would be complex and not totally out of character for Matrix.  When Enzo becomes an Avatar, it will be interesting to see how Matrix will react.

If Enzo overcomes the Avatar, his whole ordeal could change his relationship with Matrix. The fact they both lost their childhood dramatically could give them common ground; giving them something to relate to besides being the same person so to speak. 

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 anything, but my ambition is just to learn as much as I can. My school doesn't have much in the way of art classes, and even so they're all full up this semester... and next semester I might be out of the country and I don't know if the uni there will have much to offer in english either... sooo yeah.

And to combine both those things, I really want a crash course in comic book and animation nerdyness! I really don't know anything at all! The only thing I read is Gargoyles, because... <3!!! When I was a kid, I used to love the saturday morning animations like the spider man and bat man and x men. But from the time I was about 10 to a year or two ago I mostly watched anime (I don't want to even start to get into my mixed feelings about that 7_7). The style is "cute" and whatever, but I really want to learn a more western style of cartooning... but it's hard because I don't know what to watch or read or where to look... sigh... ok I'm not sure if my words are even making any sense ; ; so I'll stop embarrassing my self now and... oh wait no I won't... I said I was gonna post a picture, didn't I? Embarrassment ensues!

It gets cut off so here is a link !

I wanted to draw a quick pic of Dot and her... "bodyguards"... because .... well, I've never drawn Hack n Slash before and I wanted to try... and cuz... I just love that these boneheads protect her! Quick doodling is an infinite source of FUN! Heh heh heh!

Can anyone guess whose line Slash is parodying? Lol *nerd*.  I thought the quote kind of resembled the way Hack and Slash always speak in circles.

Super quick doodle to give myself a break from the lil mini reboot fan comic I'm trying to draw... cuz I'm stupid and overambitious like that ^_^;. Five pages sketched so far!

TL;DR - WORDS WORDS WORDS PICTAR WORDS

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?

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.

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. But the journey has its rewards.

I saw things I liked from day one that sucked me in. This is my list:

1. The cast - All the key players alive! YES! No one deleted (except Turbo). The Professor wanted everyone back. So did I. As for loosing Turbo I will admit, he wasn't a favorite of mine. I didn't dislike him but when a character is one of your lesser favorites, I was willing to let them go.

2. Bob and Dot's relationship -The line about Dot missing Bob and her love growing for him as she waits for him to return. I'm a sap for those too. Keeping them together was important to me.

3. Gnosis - A killer super computer from our space. It wasn't a great starting point. I thought of the Matrix, the rogue from Terminator and the MCP from Tron rolled into one. I thought the idea just needed a tweak. And it got tweaked just right. A program wanting to replace the User. It is different then a virus being the main threat.

4. The Avatars - That design had me from day one. 

5. Codemaster Lens - Finally! A chance to have someone to expand on what Codemasters are like. Season 2 of ReBoot was my favorite. I am so happy to see this character return.

Other changes have only made the pitch better. The Web Game shows how the World Wide Web has become a strong focus of us Users. You can spend hours playing something on line. So we all got lost in the Web at sometime. I've already blogged about Enzo Matrix. The idea of enemies becoming friends and friends becoming enemies is something comic books have done, for better or worse. And I know Enzo will be all right in the end.

And at one point I made the mistake of thinking they might try too hard and wreck the story. But it only got better.

Congratulations Jeff, Shaun, Kelly and Shea. Go team Arrival go!

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

I'm sorry I lose at drawing Mainframe. But I really did try! May all the pretty lines distract you from its bad-ness. XD Strangely, Page 2 was the first page to be cleaned up yet it's the second being posted. Go fig.

And nobody spotted the Guardian teddy bear, pseudo-Planet Express or infamous binome eye dimple?

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* 

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.