It's largely cost rather than sales; sf stories tended to have specially made costumes based around a standard design, historicals a wider range borrowed from stores. That made the latter cheaper to make at the time, but ironically the former are cheaper to animate.I got my copy of Fury from the deep today, only 15 serials to go.Technically only 14 and Mission to the Unknown but I would like it as its own DVD.
Bummer about the historicals, is there really no market for them? At this point I don't think they would sell fewer copies because lets face it, the only people buying animated reconstructions of 55 year old episodes are completists.
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Then give them cheaper to animated costumes. I really don't care about accuracy that much when it comes to animated period costumes, especially when the animation is as rudimemtary and stylized as it is in Doctor Who. Simplified costumes could even fit that style.
At the end of the day I'd rather have animated episodes with costumes not exactly matching the original look than no episodes at all.
I'd pay 5 bucks more for historicals if that helps, £20 for an animated Marco Polo or The Highlanders would be worth it or is 15 the most the average customer is willing to pay?
At the end of the day I'd rather have animated episodes with costumes not exactly matching the original look than no episodes at all.
I'd pay 5 bucks more for historicals if that helps, £20 for an animated Marco Polo or The Highlanders would be worth it or is 15 the most the average customer is willing to pay?
The UK Daily Mirror claims work has finally begun on the first Hartnell-era animated reconstruction in quite a long while - Season 3's opener, Galaxy Four.
What more do you need to say?
Web of Fear episode 3.
I've only seen this as a telesnap re-creation.
I've only seen this as a telesnap re-creation.
Ugh, that's pretty awful. I couldn't even finish it. And what the hell was going on with the Brigadier's righthand fingers in the opening wide shot?
Yeah. It's surprising how much worse it is than some of their recent efforts. I wish they had the budget to do the animation properly.
At least Web of Fear only needs the one episode restored. And, honestly, I don't really care for the telesnaps as a form of storytelling, so even this preferable.
Not me. I'll take the telesnaps over that..."animation." Not just because the animation is terrible but also because I'm use to them at this point.
I'll take telesnaps anyway. It's my preferred method of reconstruction.
I like the telesnaps because they're actual surviving images -- the real thing, if only fragments thereof. Although there are some episodes that hardly have any surviving images, so their reconstructions are less satisfying.
Yup, those episodes with enough telesnaps (and in good condition) provide a good enough throughline of what was actually going on that one could enjoy it and fill in the gaps with your own imagination.
Oh wow. Just wow. Some folks over GallifreyBase are rather funny in supporting it, but there's no question this the worst animation I've seen of Who's lost episodes. It perplexes this is deemed to be acceptable for release - especially in light of Ian Levine's own fan-anmations, the majority of which are vastly superior to this dreck. No one can argue his Shada is worse-looking than the to-be-released episode 3 of The Web of Fear.
Just wow.
Just wow.
Call me crazy but I like the animation in that Web of Fear clip. It seems to capture the blocking and look of a live-action episode well.
Agreed. I know the telesnaps work for some but not me. I also prefer these animations.
Yeah, I'll give it that, but unfortunately it's the look of a live-action episode whose performers are all living Nutcrackers.
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