Reboot and Beast wars were all done by the same group, called "Mainframe"  In the
first and second seasons, Reboot was awful... Like shiny things (Bob's hair) would
reflect blue sky even when he was indoors at night.  It was obvious that they animated
everything separately and matted in the backgrounds later.

The third season was a lot better though.

Lance Birch wrote:

> Yes, we get in in Australia (well, we USED to).  TEN were airing it a while
> ago I think...  It's pretty good.  They have obviously put a lot of effort
> into it.  There is one thing however that I am extremely disappointed
> with...  THERE ARE NO SHADOWS!!!  They obviously couldn't afford the
> rendering overheads of shadow casting (although with their polygon system
> and judging on the reflection mapping it is definately a scanline renderer
> so shadow maps would have surficed).  Oh well.  Reboot was a good one as
> well.  It was very well done.
>
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