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From: seel4330@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jeffrey Michael Seelig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: ANY AND ALL ASCII PICTURES WANTED!!!!!!!
Date: 8 Oct 1992 01:08:30 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: world
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Hi all,

I hope this is the right place to post this, but as I'm kinda uneducated about gif pictures, I enjoy creating and getting as many ASCII pictures as I can.

I like them because they are easy to fix if something goes wrong.  So please,
If you have ANY, and I repeat, ANY ascii pictures, please send them to me.

I would be most appreciative.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey M. Seelig, CTM
optimus@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
or
seel4330@miller.cs.uwm.edu

Thanks to all who respond!

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From: moon!cyberden!xorcist@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: AEon Flux
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:08:33 GMT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec) writes:

> What happened to AEon Flux on MTV this Tuesday?  I didn't see it in next
> week show's preview either.  Does anyone know how many new "episodes" have
> been made for this season?  And the broadcast dates?

Flux this year was a real horror. Delays put it way behind schedule. There
are more Flux's, 4 more I believe... the whole ordeal is a blurr to me...
(I worked on Sound Design along with Drew Neumann who does the score), but
the next episode will air I believe in the first week of November. I will
try and lock down all dates for the remaining episodes and post them here.

> I also heard that AEon Flux is going to be made into a comic book.  Anyone
> have any details on this?

Nope.. not true. Flux is the last think Peter want's to deal with at this
moment... <X>orcist

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From: moon!cyberden!xorcist@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Aeon Flux on tape??
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 07:06:46 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

>Are any of the Aeon Flux cartoons on videotape.  I know it's probably been
>asked before, but I've never really hung around this newsgroup before.
>
>---------------
>kickstart@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
>"Chris Josephes"

Not until MTV decides to do such. Flux was made specially for LTV and the
only way to get it on tape it to tape it off MTV. I keep telling Peter to
try and get Flux released on tape but he tells me MTV has the rights... and
well, we all know how big business can be...
<X>orcist

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From: kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin J. Chen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: BTAS: The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy 10-14
Date: 15 Oct 92 04:49:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>This episode was excellent.  When I saw Elliot Maggin's name as the
>writer, I knew it would be pretty good, but it was better than that.
>Not much else to say, but:

I didn't think the episode was all that great; I personally thought it
suffered from a really weak plot.  I'm not sure how in character it was
for Batman to arrange a sting.  The final fight scene was doofy to the
extreme; Wormwood was a master of deathtraps, but he wasn't a martial
artist -- even if he was, there was no way that he was the equivalent of
Batman.  I'm disappointed at the way Batman's physical prowess
oscillates with respect to the episode he's in; the same Batman who
could knock down three goons without blinking in Heart of Ice (still the
best episode to date, IMO) shouldn't have had any problem dealing with
Wormwood.

>(1) I wondered how Batman could figure out the riddles so quickly.  It
>turns out he was in on it from the beginning :-).

The riddles get a thumbs up (speaking of which, where the heck's the
Riddler?).  I was especially glad that they didn't have to *explain* the
answer to the first riddle, like they would in a traditionally dumb
kids' cartoon.

>(2) Has this Wormwood character shown up in the comics or anywhere
>else?

Never heard of him.

>(3) We see the Bat-signal for the first time.

Whoop-de-do.   I was much happier when Batman just *showed up* when and
where he was needed.  He just *knows* everything... :)

>(4) Did the sound sound sub-par to anybody else?  I noticed that the
>music seemed different in the opening (bank explosion) and at various
>places in the episode (words sounded mumbled, for example).

Hadn't noticed this, either.  If there was a fault, it was probably a
local station error.

More Clayface tomorrow.  Oh, well.  At least Part II was entertaining.

Kevin.
From: musashi@blinn.eecs.uic.edu (Miyamoto Musashi)
Subject: Re: Beyond Mind's Eye (was: Wow! Killer Bee)
Summary: "Panspermia" is on SVR #62
Organization: Electronic Visualization Lab, U. of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 06:30:55 GMT

In article <BvvM03.6F0@CAM.ORG> emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
>In article <m0mcjKW-00015rC@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> rich.bellacera@amail.amdahl.com writes:
>>I attended a Animation Film Festival about a year ago where a computer
>>animated short was featured.  I cannot remember the name of the feature
>>exactly, but I seem to recall the word "spermatazoa" or something like that in
>>the title. It was about a spore that comes from outerspace, lands on a planet,
>>roots and thrives, then it completely takes over the planet.  The end of the
>>featurette has all of the plants that grew from this one spore shooting their
>>spores off into space, presumable to repeat the actions that took place at the
>>beginning of the film.  Vicious cycle of doom.  Does anyone know the title of
>>this film and where it might be available?
>
>"Panspermia".  It was part of one of Mike and Spike's Festivals of 
>Animation.  It's not on tape, to my knowledge.
>

"Panspermia" is available on the SIGGRAPH Video Review Issue No. 62.
Many computer animations are available on the SIGGRAPH Video Reviews;
it is one of the best collections of computer graphics work around, IMHO.
Most of the NTSC tapes cost $60 (US) for non-SIGGRAPH members; the PAL
versions (limited to newer issues) cost $115.  The tapes are available in
two formats: 1/2" VHS - two issues per tape (2 hours)
             3/4" U-Matic - one issue per tape (1 hour)

A note for purists: I watched a copy of "The Mind's Eye" at store and
I noticed that some of the pieces that I had previously seen at the
SIGGRAPH conference had been re-named and had a different soundtrack.
The different names didn't bother me but having a different soundtrack
affected the mood of some of the pieces.  Your mileage may vary. :-)

SIGGRAPH Video Review Ordering Info:
By phone: Within USA: 1-800-523-5503
          Outside USA: 1-708-250-0807
          FAX: 1-708-250-0038

By mail: SIGGRAPH Video Review
         c/o First Priority
         PO Box 576
         Itasca, IL  60143-0576
         USA


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From: dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Donald A Shaffer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: BTAS: Two-Face
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:46:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: andromed.Oct.7.10.46.13.1992.14591
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim) writes:

>In article <0HT9RB2w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin) writes:
>> (what the hell 
>>kind of crimefighter would run around in shorts and in Day-Glo colors?  
>>draw the fire away from Batman probably...)

> "I am BatDuck, and this is Target, the pig hostage." 
                               /\
                             Decoy, that's decoy!
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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: Re: Tim Curry
Organization: Turkey Hall
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:22:48 GMT

In article <BvrLF1.EwL@ulowell.ulowell.edu> bkeener@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian E. Keener) writes:
>I did recognize the name "Tim Curry", but couldn't place it... what has he
>	done before "Meggalomania"?
>
>							-MetalMaster (Ed)

He acted in both "Annie" and "Clue".  That's all I can think of.
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach)
Subject: Re: DRAGON'S LAIR animation
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:35:23 GMT

In article <20sLsB2w165w@cyberden.uucp>, xorcist@cyberden.uucp writes:
> ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) writes:
> 
> I have Dragon's Lair, the original laser disk. Interesting... Neato
> back metal plate cover to prevent warping. Now that's cool...

That "neato" metal plate is made of aluminum.  Still, it makes the
disk so heavy the inertia will BREAK THE SPINDLE off a laserdisc player
if the hole is not properly centered.

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From: 01klcampbell@bsu-ucs.uucp (Kenton Campbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: AEon Flux *spoilers*
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:33:49 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.animation

In article <91964@netnews.upenn.edu>, kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec) writes:
> What happened to AEon Flux on MTV this Tuesday?  I didn't see it in next
> week show's preview either.  Does anyone know how many new "episodes" have
> been made for this season?  And the broadcast dates?

I haven't been following MTV's LIQUID TELEVISION enough to follow the
plot of AEon Flux (or is that Fon Flux?), but I did see it Tuesday, 
and it was (relatively) clear that the main woman died. 

> I also heard that AEon Flux is going to be made into a comic book.  Anyone
> have any details on this?

If so, let's hope it's understandable.

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From: s442069@nexus.yorku.ca (Douglas Rosen)
Subject: Re: Don Bluth Studios no more
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:25:47 GMT

In article <Bw45tr.5rq@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> mwdenney@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Michael W. Denney) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.090854.2393@inland.com> hancock@inland.com (Tom Hancock) writes:
>>> Don Bluth has closed his studios both in the U.S. and abroad and has filed
>>> for Bankrupcy.  
>>> 
>>	Where did you hear/read this?  What's Don Bluth (and
>>Goldman and Pomeroy et.al.)  going to do now?  Anybody have any other
>>news on this?
>>
>Well, I haven't heard anything specifically relating to the shutdown, but
>my most recent catalogue from The Animation Celection states (and I quote):
>"Mr. Bluth is near to completion on his next feature, A Troll in Central Park."
>
>This just came a week or so ago, so it kind of contradicts any shutdown rumours.

We started putting that catalog together about 3 months ago. (A lot of the 
delays were due to the printer.) Anyway, The point being that our catalog may
not be the best place for "up to date" information. 

BTW, If you would not mind taking the time, could you please send me email
concerning your thought on our catalog as well as comments, etc.

Thanks.

>
>Michael
> a.k.a. The Phantom Scribbler
>
> - But, Henry, I tried to tell you...
>
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From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Speed Racer cartoon Questions
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:04:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

I remember parts of some Speed Racer cartoons from my youth some ten years 
ago so these overviews are VERY fragmented.  I am hoping that someone out 
there can give me the titles for the shows.  I also saw would like some 
over view of some of the titles I have.  Sorry for the crossposting but I 
seem to remember that Speed Racer was made in Japan which makes it anime, 
but I am uncertain so the crosspost.  Thanks in advance.

Show overviews

Racer X is thought to be Speed by some group who then tries to kill Racer X 
and at the end Racer X removes his mask to show that he is Speed's brother.

A madman in a weird mask wires the Mach V into a bomb to use it and Speed 
to steal art treasures.

A remote controlled car called the X-3 is used in a revenge plot.

A man uses small cars that allow him to control real cars that he then melts 
down and uses to build a forest complete with robotic animals.  It is reveled 
that a boy in a wheelchair can really walk but was keep in it by the man.

Some people are after new engine plans that are on the Mach V's windshield
and use cars that project spikes from the hubcaps.

A man with a metal brace on his arm (caused by gangsters because he did not 
throw a race) can drive on the side of walls and beats Speed in very 
difficult race.  At the end it is revealed that the arm has completely healed.

Speed Racer tries to cross Niagara Falls on two rope cables, falls in, and 
discovers a hidden cave behind the falls.

Someone kidnaps Speed and the Mach V.  His misuse of the homing bird (he 
smacked it across the ground) lead the police to Speed.

This is a scene so good luck:  Sprite and the chimp are in the trunk of a 
car which has the outer skin pealed off (it went from dark to light color) 
and the licence plate rotates.

Titles

The Great Plan
Race vs the Mammoth Car
  A gigantic car is used to smuggle gold (the car WAS the gold.)
Fastest car on Earth
Gang of Assassins
Supersonic Car
Race Around the World
Desperate Desert Race
Mach V vs. Mach V
Race Against Time
Secret Invaders
The Most Dangerous Race
  All I remember is that it was 3 parts and that at the end Speed 
  was blinded and Racer X pretended that he could not use his 
  legs and in tandem they drove the Mach V.

Comments welcome
From: kimy@cs.umd.edu (Yong-Mi Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: BTAS:  10/13  MAD AS A HATTER
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:13:22 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742


I found this episode especially engrossing because of the characterization
of the scientist who becomes the Mad Hatter.

Try this experiment: read through several hundred soc.singles postings,
then rewatch the episode (of course you taped it!).


yong-mi
who has more in common with Alice than the Mad Hatter
From: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: LTV: Incomprehensible Speech
Date: 8 Oct 1992 08:30:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) says:

>"Speedbump: The Roadkill Possum".  It LOOKED great, lotta potential there.
>Annoying sounding, hard to understand....really short!

You're not kidding!  Did anyone understand what the possum was saying?
Was it anything substantial?

It reminded me of "[?] and Radboy Go" from last season, and the live action
"Brickface and Stucco" skits that MTV occasionally used as station ID.  In
both cases, I found that I could make out the dialogue after watching it
again.

I guess it's some kind of style...

			---------- Ryan Mathews
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From: mfrose@ais.org (Martin Rose)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: From the "What the..." file
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:22:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UMCC

Okay, we've been seeing the X-Men promos all this week on Fox, haven't we?
Yes, we have.  What day are they hypeing?  Hm?  Did you say October 24th?
Yes, that's what they're saying...

So what in the name of Zarquon is the deal with the TV guide?  They claim to
have an 11:30am slot for X-Men.  TOMORROW.

I'll assume somebody at Fox made a typographical error...but I'll be
watching at 11:30 tomorrow, just in case.  (Even if "tomorrow" is only forty
minutes away. :) )
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From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: x-men promos
Date: 14 Oct 92 11:36:58 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <Ueqgrb200Uh_41ZXtd@andrew.cmu.edu> Chris Holly <maverick+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>From: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews):
>
>>One of the best things about X-MEN when Claremont was writing it was the
>>"edge" it had.  The X-Men were not happy heroes, indeed, they weren't even
>>seen as heroes by most of the public.
>
>>What do you want to bet the X-MEN will be portrayed as prototypical Good
>>Guys, while Magneto laughs maniacally and plots Evil Scheme after Evil
>>Scheme?  There's another character ruined.  The reformed Magneto was one of
>>the best characters in the Marvel Universe.
>> 
>>R.I.P.  X-Men, marketed to death, 1992.
>
>    One of the main subplots of the new X-men series is rumored to be
>the false accusal, arrest, and conviction of the beast.  How is that for
>"happy heroes" and prototypical good guys.

Whereupon he will be attacked while in prison, and either (a) spirited
away during the fight, getting him into more hot water, or (b) saves the
life of a guard, judge, innocent, or whatever and people realize they were
wrong.  We've been through this before.

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From: jondr@sco.COM (Desi The Three-Armed Wonder Comic)
Subject: Re: Aeon Flux trivia factoids :...
Reply-To: jondr@sco.com
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 23:44:41 GMT


I am not jordan@castor (Chuck Jordan).  I didn't say:
>"Aeon Flux" is such a ridiculous film that for anyone to say that it's a 
>statement on violence, is either really pretentious or is mistaken as far as
>how to make an effective statement.

Well, the guy who made Aeon Flux said it's about violence and how we as
viewers relate to on-screen violence.  Is that good enough for you?

>Also, there's nothing in the film to clue the audience in that all this
>violence is really weird.

How about the fact that a dozen guards are shooting at this woman, who's
standing stil, with automatic weapons and all the bullets miss?  Then she
whips off a few rounds and everyone dies.  This doesn't strike you as even
slightly odd?

>There's nothing
>realistic in the movie, so the violence isn't really violence, it's just
>action.

The suffering of the shooting victims in the second segment was painfully
realistic.

>The only character we identify with is the woman with the hair 
>who goes around shooting people, and even she has a happy ending -- she gets
>to go to her foot-fetish heaven.

Yeah.  Weird that.  What was she trying to do?  Why is she in heaven even
though she caused all that suffering?  And did the thin scientist guy invent
the disease in the first place just so he could invent a cure for it and get
recognition and fame?  Did he bump off the old crusty guy that Aeon was
apparently there to nail?  This short film deliberately avoids handing out
answers.  It's supposed to make you think about the "action film" cliches
and standards that you take for granted.

>Anyway, I think claiming that the audience of Aeon Flux failed to realize
>they were being manipulated is a real stretch.  I think the movie failed
>to manipulate them the right way.

Did you miss the 2nd segment where they show all the suffering people in
extreme detail?  I'd say anybody who could watch that and not start to
question their assumptions is brain dead.

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From: palomb@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Palombella)
Subject: Re: Daffy Duck in "The Commando"
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:04:27 GMT

tap1040@zeus.tamu.edu (SPEED RACER) writes:
  The Nazi puts the phone up to his ear, and says, "What?  Is that
>you, Mert?"  or something to that effect.  Can someone knowledgeable of
>that time period tell me what that meant?  I get most of the jokes in those
>old cartoons but that's one that eludes me.

	This is also in Tex Avery's _Blitz Wolf_, but I have no idea
where it comes from (big help, huh?).  Anyway, I'd love to know where
the line comes from, too.

>Also, in several other war-time cartoons there appears a man with a black
>handlebar moustache who says, "AAAAAAAAH, Yes!..." and then goes on to say
>something pertinent to the situation.  Could someone tell me who this man
>was?  

	This is Jerry Colona.  Very distinctive voice, impersonated in
many WB 'toons.  During WWII, he entertained overseas with Bob Hope;
films of those shows are my first memory of the real person.  "Greetings,
Gate, let's osculate!" was one of his trademark lines.  This inspired the
WB 'toon, _Greetings, Bait_, about a Colona-like worm, and one in which
a mustachioed Indian exclaims, "Greetings, Gate, let's scalpitate!"

				-- Tony
                 
>Thank you to all who respond.


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