Sean Huxter - 3D Animator (Lightwave 3D)

This is my rendition of the famous ReBoot Incoming Game Cube! This animation was created on the beta version of Lightwave 4.0 running under Windows 32s, which I managed to get a bit of time on. The whole graphic from modeling to the start of rendering took less than an hour, and uses two basic procedural mapping techniques in several layers.

The sky funnel was done by modeling the funnel fully extended, and simply using Y scaling on it. By the time the sky plane begins to fade in the tunnel is partly extended, and fully extended shortly after it has fully faded in.

ReBoot did what TV should be doing. It was innovative people like these who created shows meant initially for children, but that can attract the attention of the adult audience. Shows like this, and Thunderbirds, made me want to be what I am today. An animator and special effects man.

[COMMENTARY]: ABC decided to stop airing Reboot. This was a blow to the show, which is a hit with people of all ages, due to its refusal to bow down to mediocrity. This show did some things that I think other shows are afraid to do. For example, in the final episode of Season II, Bob made Enzo a Guardian (v1.0) and was subsequently flung out into the World Wide Web with no way of finding his way back to Mainframe. That basically gets rid of a very popular character to make room for Enzo to grow as an adolescent, and eventually an adult. What ABC has done makes it difficult for this series to be made, but not impossible. The good news is that YTV still commissioned a Season III which is eight of the finest hours on TV.

That was a bit off the topic for an animation page, since this was meant for me to discuss how these images were created. Sorry, but I rant. That's what I do.

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