Talk:The Moxy Show (1993-2000 CGI Anthology Series)/@comment-36074249-20190306030608/@comment-37387471-20190309021557

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One of the new stars of Toontown is "Moxy". He officially works as a janitor for the Cartoon Network, the US cable channel that broadcasts cartoons around the clock. Unfortunately, he failed in the test recordings - he did not even pass Fred Feuerstein's "Jabba dabba du" on his lips. In order to still be close to his idols like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Feuerstein, he finally took over the janitor job on television. In his small workshop in the basement of the Cartoon Network, he has created a pirate radio station, with which he secretly turns into the regular program. That's how he is discovered - and to the Thomas Gottschalk of the Cartoon Network. He's now broadcasting live, chatting with real human guests, and even with onlookers calling from home, "Hey Moxy, why is your ear biting?" a caller wants to know "That happened to me last week at the Pearl Jam concert," he admits in a voice that sounds like he's already bogged down for the third night.

This is the mix of television reality and cartoon world as the viewer experiences it. And this is the technical reality:

"As a Cartoon Network, we wanted to have a cartoon presenter for our live broadcasts," says Betty Cohen, vice president of the broadcaster, part of CNNChef's media empire, Ted Turner. But this was impossible until now. With traditional technology, hosts of draftsmen and trick experts had to work for weeks to bring a character to life. Each movement phase is drawn in the classic animated film by hand and recorded by trick camera. Only in the brain of the beholder, the individual phases become a fluid movement.

Even computers were until recently unable to calculate animations in real time - that is, with no noticeable time delay. Each individual phase took several minutes of computation time to match the image quality of hand-crafted cartoons. And behind the allegedly computer-animated "Max Headroom" of the British Channel 4 was actually an actor with a latex mask whose image was alienated only by video technology.

Moxy owes its existence, however, to a completely new animation technique, the performance puppetry as common with the conventional trick methods. The technical requirement, among other things, is the new generation of fast graphics computers, from which the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" hatched. But the deciding factor is a special software developed by Brad deGraf at Colossal Pictures (San Francisco): It can translate the movements of a living human being into those of a three-dimensional, computer-generated figure.