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NYCC: Rebooting 'ReBoot' with Gavin Blair and Dan DiDio
The original computer-animated TV show's fanbase spreads like a virus...
The original computer-animated TV show's fanbase spreads like a virus... 

There was no shortage of confused, then surprised, faces in the long line for Sunday's "ReBoot Con. Attendees were at first incredulous that the line was so long, then happy to discover so many fellow fans of the late-'90s animated television series.


Even the creators of the series were surprised.


"Oh, my god! Can you believe this?" exclaimed Dan DiDio as he approached his fellow ReBoot creator Gavin Blair.

Booked in one of the smaller panel rooms, the event filled to capacity with people sitting in the aisles. The panel was organized to promote The Art of ReBoot hardcover book and the initiative to re-launch the series as a theatrical movie. Panelists included supervising animator Gavin Blair, story editor Dan DiDio (now Executive Editor at DC Comics), character modeler (and producer of the hardcover) Jim Su and Paul Gertz of Rainmaker Entertainment. 

Blair and DiDio quickly became the focus of the panel as they reminisced about the groundbreaking CGI animated series that imagined what electronic life was like inside a computer. In the series, Bob the Guardian and his friends defended the system from viruses, hackers and troublesome games. Since the show is no longer on the air, the tone was unrestrained and the panelists were frank about their memories of the series.
As DiDio explained, he wasn't originally one of the creators of the series. He was the series liason for the ABC network.
"The first show I was assigned was ReBoot," said DiDio. "You're looking at the first computer-animated television series ever. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody knows how it's being done." 

Blair then explained that, as they showed DiDio around the Mainframe Entertainment production studios, they had the same staffers sit in different rooms so he would think the operation was bigger than it actually was.
"I completely fell for it all," laughed DiDio.
     Innovation didn't come without a price, though. DiDio said the first episode took 10 weeks to produce and subsequent episodes weren't much faster. But it wasn't for lack of work.