Another factor complicating the chances of finding Biggs' Adventure shorts on a bootleg recording is that the Biggs clips were only shown at Regal theaters.
So I think a better idea would be to try to contact Regal about this. It’s probably not going to help as far as finding the footage goes, but at least we have a better chance at finding more Biggs’ Adventure-related info.
So I think a better idea would be to try to contact Regal about this. It’s probably not going to help as far as finding the footage goes, but at least we have a better chance at finding more Biggs’ Adventure-related info.
Maybe also contact someone from Kidtoon Films, since that's a separate company? Also, presumably some animation studio made the Biggs' Adventure ads, though IDK how we'd find them.
I think we'd have a better chance contacting them than Regal, though I dunno if they still exist.
Post by generalironbeak on Apr 2, 2021 23:28:40 GMT
It’s funny that Pooh’s Heffalump Movie showed Biggs’ interstitials, considering I remember seeing a trailer for it at the Incredibles showing. What’s also interesting is I don’t think they showed the Cars preview in my theater, since I don’t remember seeing it again until we rented The Incredibles on DVD, and I’m pretty sure it was when we saw The Polar Express that I saw it in theaters.
Another thing I’m wondering is did all the Regal showings of The Incredibles use the same reel of ads before the previews? If someone finds one and the second thing shown (after the first Biggs’ commercial) is a sports-related ad, I think we’ll know for sure.
The second one has some good descriptions of the animation from someone who actually knows what they're talking about it seems: "But the animation quality of this flick is abysmal. When compared with what Pixar put up after the previews its like night and day. Twice I caught hidden-surface-removal errors when a character opened his mouth and I saw trees behind him. A couple of other times I saw physics or frame-of-reference errors where the actor wasn't moving quite in sync with the background. Movements were far from natural, far enough that they even looked like animatronic pupets rendered by computer. Shading, always a rough patch in CG, was haphazard at best; in fact it looked like they skipped lighting in favor of making *everything* bright. Where Pixar has skin react to the environment by deforming, this film ignored that completely. I've seen better stuff come out of a Playstation II."
EDIT: I didn't really check thoroughly enough; we've found these already.
UPDATE: I found an animator who definitely worked on Biggs' Adventure. Anyone else that is interested in this, do you want me to go ahead and contact them? Gilby1385generalironbeak
UPDATE: I found an animator who definitely worked on Biggs' Adventure. Anyone else that is interested in this, do you want me to go ahead and contact them? Gilby1385generalironbeak
UPDATE: I found an animator who definitely worked on Biggs' Adventure. Anyone else that is interested in this, do you want me to go ahead and contact them? Gilby1385generalironbeak
Go ahead.
I already have, thanks! Haven't gotten a response back yet, though.
Small update: we may be close to finding Biggs' Adventure! We definitely found the person in charge of making it. Unfortunately, we might not be able to release it publicly to avoid legal issues. Still we'll try to share as much as we can.
Small update: we may be close to finding Biggs' Adventure! We definitely found the person in charge of making it. Unfortunately, we might not be able to release it publicly to avoid legal issues. Still we'll try to share as much as we can.
We have a copy! But yeah, the person we got it from asked us not to release it publicly. I'll update the wiki entry with the full summary of what happens. You can see it if you ask and promise not to release it publicly.
Small update: we may be close to finding Biggs' Adventure! We definitely found the person in charge of making it. Unfortunately, we might not be able to release it publicly to avoid legal issues. Still we'll try to share as much as we can.
We have a copy! But yeah, the person we got it from asked us not to release it publicly. I'll update the wiki entry with the full summary of what happens. You can see it if you ask and promise not to release it publicly.