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yeah i have all the images for that. they are on theguyver.net. I can quickly transfer them somehow. ---------- i done a few, that's enough for now, I'll continue later.

pre-lit? yeah we have a similar thing on ours. it's like optic fibres come from the base and go to the end where they are arranged into stars.

wow a 7 foot tree? awesome! it must be really beautiful! our tree is 5 foot tall but we put it on a table. when i have my own household, I will have so many decorations and i will make an occasion of it and get the kids to help out and work together on it

Ha Ha , oh boy, that was so funny! The bit that really had me in hysterics was the cat XD [emote=simple]hysterical[/emote] [emote=monkey]ohboy[/emote] that was genius.

i think it should be fukamachi shou. I attached an archive of character images stored on my har drive. it's not from the manga, I don't have those stored. I'll get them though. edit: I found them on my external hard drive. characters.zip zoalord_banners.zip

you can do as much as you like, don't worry about stepping on my toes or anything. I've spent many years working on this site and its predecessors, I am more than happy to take a rest. you'd probably do a much more effective job on it due to your excellent motivation.

that all looks good. I have done a lot of work on zoanoids in the past. please check the following pages. http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_libertus.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_guyverkiller.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_lostnumber.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_aqua.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_aerial.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_power.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_bioblaster.htm http://www.theguyver.net/guyver_datafiles/hierarchy/data_hyperzoanoid.htm http://www.japan-legend.com/wiki/index.php?title=Zoaforms I've also been working on the images for comparison with guyver 1.

hurricanger didn't have silver mouthplate.

yeah, definitely approved. I'll add some pictures. if you put any placeholders in where you would like pictures, I can add them easily.

not that i want to digress much, but since it was said about video games, I'd like to point out games like the half life series. you most certainly have to use your brain for these in many places. especially the portal game. also, there is not always an emphasis on graphics, since we have games like Braid. but i guess we are focused more on the main chunk of the market here, right?

really? wow, there's something i never heard. you learn something new everyday. I'm sure it doesn't change the vision though? I mean, that scene is the climax of the film isn't it?

technically, yes. I guess there could. but that is like saying "can there be 4 or 5 instead of 3 little pigs?". the point is that you can put anything in a box. you can categorise it by whatever means you choose. when Armageddon first came out, another film also came out called deep impact. on the surface you might say that one film was copying the other. but in truth, the two films were very different affairs. it is just the main theme was the same. a giant meteor. perhaps it is good to point out the obvious similarity because then you can concentrate on other factors. while there is 7 stories, there are infinite variations on those. a story can always catch you off guard, I watched something last night and a shocking thing happened, I never saw it coming. I usually get some hint of things before they happen but this caught me completely off guard. it was pretty special.

this might have been true in the past, when cultures were mostly isolated. in modern society there is an intermingling of cultures and so even if one culture starts to falter, another one succeeds.

i find that usually, a creator has a certain vision and the rest is built around that vision. for example, terminator was conceived from a nightmare that james cameron had of a killer robot that could not be stopped. essentially, the main vision for the film terminator is the end part where the robot is stripped down and chasing sarah through the machinery. the rest of the film was then built around that. so when you get an adaptation, you have to depend on that persons vision of the book/comic/etc. when you or i watch a show or read a book or whatever, we will each have our favourite parts. what you call adaptation decay is otherwise known as individual preference. it all comes from the initial vision. it's all about communication. communication of an idea. the film maker is not making the film for you. they are making it primarily for themself. as with all artwork, it is a very personal thing. of course in many studios, the art is destroyed and it becomes more of a technical production. you can tell when a procduction has been ruined when you get major continuity issues and similar problems. or you get something with no passion. or you get "wild wild west."

this is one variation. the point is, pretty much all stories all draw from the same basic elements. you say that eragon was a rip off of star wars... personally, I never made that link at all. I did however see strong similarities between the first harry potter and star wars. so it can also depend on your point of view.

look at the guyver google map. there's a prominent thread in the guyver forum.

yes most certainly, great stuff. the comparison to cannes film festival is excellent. I wholeheartedly agree. it is hollywood and similar studios that are the problem. well, the main problem is money and the idea of making a film to make profit. this is going to be your problem in any media or in any industry. the ones who have the money will not invest in any talent, because they see it as a risk. so you see the talent coming through in independent cinema instead. it is indeed hollywood and similar studios losing their talent. they are not investing in their 'fertiliser' and their soil is not yielding good crops. there have been some good films coming to our cinemas though. i don't know if this is due to dealing with different studios or due to some other influential factors. you'd have to ask an industry analyst. films like stardust.

i don't watch cartoons either. they are pretty tacky. I mostly invest my time in sitcom, documentary and a few good drama like true blood.

to expand on one of my points, speaking from personal experience here, when the matrix came out, everyone was fussing about the special effects. there was documentaries and all sorts, everyone was flocking to see such an amazing film with amazing techniques. that was the big fuss at the time, now years on, I still love that film so much. when i watch that film these days, do you think i am marvelling over the special effects? of course not. the great thing about good special effect is that you don't notice them.

this is what i was talking about earlier. there is no difference now than there was before. people were just as focused on special effects in the past. lawnmower man will be my prime example. that movie was not great by a long shot, but it was hyped to hell because of the groundbreaking CGI. starwars has it's current status in part due to the special effects. in my personal opinion, most of the star wars movies are very poorly made. the 2nd one in particular is very badly paced and seems to drag on forever. i have fallen asleep through that film and that is a very rare occurrence for me. there are just as many films made today with good story etc than there was in the past. you name me the top movies from a certain year and i will name you a similar number of quality movies from this past year. as for saying that about avatar, that it's just a retelling of pocahontas? well there is a very important principle in storytelling. that there are only 7 stories. every book or film you can look at, can be compared directly to a classical story archetype. by comparing avatar to pocahontas is a classic comparison the same ilk has been done a thousand times before. it's as you said, the skill in storytelling is hiding where your influences are. I would agree with that, but it's not always down to the creator, it's also down to the viewer. if you approach something with a highly critical mind, you are going to find flaws in it. no matter how well done it is. you could take the best film in the world and with the right mindset, you could tear it to shreds.

yeah sure it's ok. like i said, i know you guys are not vindictive. spectre has been talking a lot about creativity going out of the window. and from what i can gather, he hardly watches any western stuff. I can list a whole host of very original and creative stuff that is produced in my own country and in america. perhaps you aren't even aware of a lot of it. maybe you get exposed to a lot of stuff that is 'copied' because your media networks decide it would be more familiar or accessible to you?

then how about making it more generalised to 'popular media' since a grand majoprity of popular media comes from hollywood. at least the way i see it.

additional, do you think the focus on "the west" could be construed as discrimination? please edit your first post to make it clearer and more fair. if you want to pick at certain studios etc. that is fine, but please do not label a whole group of countries and races under one banner. you guys need to be careful because i am finding myself slightly offended. i know you guys and i know you are not that kind of people which is why i am struggling here.

some things you guys need to understand is that the majority of american and british only understand 1 language. english. it is normal for you guys to know at least 2 languages so that is why you will get a lot of western movies and be able to understand. it is not true in the reverse. the americans making an english language version of a certain film, is not because of lack of creativity it is because the original version will not be very accessible to the general populace. power rangers is not a copied concept either. it is a strict adaptation to start off with. and for the same reasons as stated above, english actors and voices were used. eragon is not a medieval star wars, eragon was based on a book and any similarities are due to influence. I can't even believe that you would use that as an example of copying. and making movie adaptations of things is also not a very convincing argument. i don't see you complaining about the death note movie for example. and japan has plenty of sequels to things. i don't suppose gransazer can be accused of copying off sentai series? what about rescue fire? I could go a lot further and start by saying that magiranger seemed to appear at around the same time as harry potter reached it's peak of popularity. i can cite many other example if you wish. durendal, through my research long ago, I learned that a lot of the original influence for sentai was heroes like spiderman. the original sentai series did not have a giant robot. obviously it has evolved a lot since then and grown so many original ideas. heres a link, skip down to the part in italics. http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/sentai.htm

i'm not seeing it. do you think you could provide some examples?