The Art of Reboot
by Dave Roberts, Gavin Blair, Brendan McCarthy, Scott Lee, and more!
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Author: and more!, Brendan McCarthy, Dave Roberts, Gavin Blair, Scott LeeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-25
ISBN: 0976309572
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: Arcana Studio
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Book Review: "The Art of ReBoot": ALPHANUMERIC !
Summary: 5 Stars
2007, Rainmaker Ent., 104 pages, numerous color pictures, hardcover.
I had been searching for this lovely book a long time, being a big fan of the series.
Having had high hopes, I wasn't disappointed when the package arrived om my dutch european doorstep.
The book is solid, the Art-work abundant. Remember ReBoot? The first computer generated animation show "back in the 90-ties" which aired 4 seasons and ended far too early and abruptly. Based on the clever concept of Sprites that live inside a Mainframe (i.e. your computer), wonderfull stories and visually stunning art was conceived.
I won't bother you with a full description of the show; if you found this review, you probably need no further explanation and know and love the show.
The book succeeds very well in conveying how exceptional the Art really was. The designs, the sets, the characters, you will find it all in here. In my opinion the show was and is Art with a capital, which was lovingly created and brought to life by a large crew of inspired, talented, persistent and very craz...ehh..creative people. The book commemorates this very well and has loads of pre-production art and inside-stories to relish in.
The book focuses mainly on the visual art and storylines, which is quite logical, exceptional as it is.
Being a multi-tongued word-artist myself, i cannot stress enough though, that the lingual innovative aspect of the show has been much underrated. I would have loved to see an extensive summary in the book dedicated to the numerous noval expressions launched in and by ReBoot, quite often based on mathematical and computer-language. Food for Frisket...ehh, the Connaisseur.
I LOVE the Art and humour of ReBoot which is aptly mirrored and expressed in this neat booklet. Booklet, you say ?
A grand 104 pages in hardcover format, a bookLET ?
This simply has to do with its dimensions, measuring only 26,5 by 17,5 cms. (2,5 centimeters is approx. 1 inch, do the Math yourself, Basic! ). There are (yes, really) hundreds-of-thousands of worldwide fans out there who love the Art of ReBoot and as I, love its 2-D and animation art. The Art does indeed wholly deserve twice its seize, if not more.
In europe great artists as Geiger and Moebius are considered artistical and cultural heroes and honoured accordingly. ReBoot in my (not so) humble opinion, ranks up there easily and yes, seize DOES matter. Know and honour your cultural heroes, praise them and be proud of them and their heritage.
Hail ! Salve !
The show was indeed in many artistical ways noval and awe-inspiring. The music. The concepts. The Art. The Animation. The Games. The character-evolution. The life-and-love-issued. The Jokes. The Witt. The Self-Mockery -how dimwitted these users are, not?-. The cultural reference encyclopedial knowledge and know-how. I could go on for hours...
Speaking of Art, I was happily surprised to see a section in this wonderfull book dedicated to the "real" 3-D art, meaning the action figures and toys. You know, the grubby things that you can really touch and hold and twist and turn (and burn....ehh...no.. wouldn't do that...must be a infinitesimal fraction of Hexadecimal came to me through the Web....).
The ReBoot toyline is quite awesome, as based on the precise computer images of the figures and sets. Being a completist myself, i would have loved to see a extensive summary of "all -not All- that is out there toywise".
There are some lovely glimpses of The Bad Binomes prototypes and others, but Oh Boy (or Girl) would we have loved to see the entire volume and rare sets...
Everything said and done, i say: BUY. BUY ONE. BUY A HUNDRED. HACK: (?) BUY A THOUSAND. GIVEAWAY AS PRESENT. GIVE ONE TO YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR WIFE OR HUSBAND, YOUR MANY LOVERS, YOUR KIDS, YOUR BOSS, YOUR DOG.
My hartiest congratulations to the authors of this marvelous book, indeed a piece of Art.
Folks: its gonna be a collectors item itself, so get 'm while you can !!!
Support ReBoot!
This is the point where i need to stress that I am in no way affiliated to Mainframe, Rainmaker of anything or anybody in the ReBoot-universe (yet). Nor do i get multi-euro's for every copy sold in europe (I wish).
In europe the Great Ones -such as Asterix are translated in every possible language and -juzz for the smart kidzz- even in Latin. I think it's high time for a latin ReBoot version and yes, coincidently, I studied latin, ancient greek, hindi and sanskrit, english and french und natürlich auch Deutsch. I am cheap...I am good at following orderzz...docile und servile...I have wunderfull digitzz...
At this point I hear a familair voice talking to us all: "Malum est. Magnum malum est." <This is bad. Real bad.>
I am getting carried away and need to take my pillz, my Boss reminds me...jawohl...
Zze True Herr Dokter
Albert Dokter (not kidding)
Netherlands
oktober 2009
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