I just thought of this, but is it possible that the canon of the ReBoot universe could support an explanation for the evolving art style of the show? Particularly, the increasingly higher-res graphics?

Think of it this way: The beginning of the show, which had the lowest-res graphics, took place exclusively in Mainframe, a "lower-end" system by the Supercomputer's standards. As the years passed and the tech improved to allow more detail, Mainframe itself also evolved (there was at least one system upgrade). By the time Season 4 rolled around, and with it came the biggest graphical leap, we had seen several new systems as well as the Supercomputer- which presumably explains why the characters were higher-res, since the Supercomputer was more powerful.

Even the flashback scenes in Season 4 can be explained this way- when the twin system was destroyed, it stands to reason that Mainframe's processing power was effectively halved. So it makes sense that after that the graphics would begin to deteriorate to Season 1 levels (i.e. Dot's infamous "monoboob" ).

So why bring this up? Weeeell, supposing Rainmaker incorporated that into future storytelling? Like say the gang hopped systems to a Pentium II-powered system, and reverted back to their Season 1-quality models? If nothing else, it'd be a cute way to throw in some fan service for long time Booters....

It is a cute idea, but I don't think the twin-city was an entire system so much as a disk, so that wouldn't explain why graphics got worse after it blew up. It does tie in well with "Enzo the Smart" where slowing down the system clock reduced the system's color depth and resolution. I personally prefer to keep the level of animation detail and system performance separate rather than try to make storyline reasons why something doesn't look the same in early seasons as it does in later seasons. (Star Trek did that with the Klingon forehead ridges, kind of a lame explanation)

I hope the level of detail in the future series is as good as technology permits, I LOVED how good season 3+ looked.

And you just KNOW that they're going down the motion capture route.

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I somewhat fear the improvement in the graphics of the trilogy, to be honest.
I'm afraid they will put stuff in just to show off the eye-candy, even if it doesn't fit into the ReBoot universe. For instance, imagine Frisket... with fur. IMHO, he shouldn't be furry, even if it's definitely possible on today's machines.

I agree, Frisket with fur is bad news. they would still have to stay true to what ReBoot is.

My thoughts exactly, Starbat. Using new technologies is great, but they shouldn't be used on a "just because we can" basis.

Right; the cities are structured to resemble hard drive platters. The system is all of Mainframe, however much that is at the time: everything enclosed by the sky.

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The Yoda puppet in Phantom menace was far more technically advanced and realistically detailed than the Empire Strikes Back puppet and the fans hated it because it didn't look "real" because it didn't look anything like the Yoda they grew up with.

For Attack of the Clones the team at Industrial Light and Magic tried to sell George Lucas on the idea of an all CGI Yoda. At first Lucas was opposed to the idea whether he thought a GC Yoda just wouldn't look right, he believed that the new puppet would grow on people, or whatever, who knows. So as a proof of concept the team spent a great deal of time working on a CG Yoda that incorporated elements from the new puppet while staying true to the original one . . going so far as to mimic the way the puppet's ears wobbled to the way it looked when Frank Oz moved his hand it when it spoke.

I would say that worked rather well. It certainly appeased the fans.