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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:53:49 GMT
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- "Kevin J. Chen" <kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Looks like the record for episodes of BTAS with "Heart of..." in the
- >title is pretty good... :)
-
- >Did anyone else think that the animation style in this episode was
- >"different"? It wasn't the very polished animation we saw in P.O.V. or
- >Heart of Ice, but I thought it was good. Certain scenes with Bats in
- >the low-lighting struck me as very impressive indeed.
-
- Yeah, it was a change at least. They made more use of detailed
- painted work for some of the static shots, such as Bats up close.
-
-
- >I thought the episode had a standard, but fun, plot (if you ignore the
- >prehensile robot tentacles -- I *hate* those). I was especially tickled
-
- This plot was very action packed - a LOT happened in a half hour,
- especially when you compare to other BTAS scripts, yet it didn't seem
- rushed. I like it.
-
- And speaking of the robots, so far there's been no outrageous basic
- errors regarding robotics / computers, and no pandering. A few
- stretches necessary for the plot, but nothing impossible or really
- stupid. And when the robot girl used her x-ray eyes, she didn't say,
- as she would have in most cartoons, "I'll use my x-ray eyes to look
- through the walls now!" just so we won't get confused if we had the IQ
- of a turnip.
-
- The one things that really bothers me about computers in BTAS is the
- keyboards - big blocky tightly-packed squares? And there aren't
- enough keys for a full alphabet, numbers, and all the punctuation, so
- they must be doing something funny to enter data. Plus, the style
- forces a hunt a peck usage, as the keys are too big for regular
- typing. Surely _one_ of the animation companies has drawn a
- typewriter keyboard before?
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