Editing ReBoot (section)

== Production ==
=== Development ===
''ReBoot'' was initially conceived in 1984 by the British creative collective The Hub, made up of John Grace, Ian Pearson, Gavin Blair and Phil Mitchell. After about eight years of development, Pearson, Blair and Mitchell moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to produce the series. Pearson and Blair by this time had created some of the first widely seen [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] characters, in the [[Dire Straits]] [[music video]] for "[[Money for Nothing (song)|Money for Nothing]]".<ref name=pressrelease1995>{{cite press release| date=January 11, 1995 | url = http://www.inwap.com/mf/reboot/alliance/Info.html | title=Alliance Communications and BLT Productions Invite You to Witness the Future of Animation – ''Reboot'' – The World's First 100% Computer Generated Weekly Animation Series| publisher= [[Alliance Communications]], BLT Productions | access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-date=June 12, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150612080317/http://www.inwap.com/mf/reboot/alliance/Info.html| url-status=live}}</ref> However, technology was not yet advanced enough to make the show in the desired way. 3D animation tests began in earnest in 1990 and ''ReBoot'' had achieved its detailed look by 1991. Production continued on future episodes and the show aired in 1994 after enough episodes had been produced. This was a painstaking process, as no other company had at this time worked on a 3D animation project of this scale, and the software used was new to all in the company.

''ReBoot'' was created on [[Silicon Graphics]] workstations using [[Softimage 3D|Softimage Creative Environment]] software.

=== Network censorship ===
The show's early jokes at the expense of [[Standards and Practices|Board of Standards and Practices]] (BS&P) came from frustration encountered by the show's makers brought about by an abundance of script and editing changes that were imposed upon Mainframe before episodes were allowed to air. These changes were all aimed at making the show "appropriate" for kids, and to prevent even the slightest appearance of "inappropriate" content, imitable violence or sexuality.<ref name=wired>{{cite magazine | last=Van Bakiel| first=Roger| url = https://www.wired.com/1997/03/reboot-3/ | title=Before ''Toy Story'', there was... ''Reboot''| magazine=Wired | issue= 3|date= March 1997| volume=5| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140715004637/http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/reboot.html | archive-date=July 15, 2014| url-status=live}}</ref>

The character Dot was considered too sexualized by the BS&P even though she was "never one to expose much cleavage" so the animators were forced to make her breasts less curvy and form them into a lumpy "monobreast", as lightly referred to by the staff. However, starting with season three, after severing ties with ABC, the "monobreasts" of all adult female characters were replaced with more anatomically correct versions. In another case, the word "hockey", as well as [[ice hockey|the sport]] itself, was cut in some countries as it was supposedly used as a vulgar slang term there. In the episode "Talent Night", one scene of Dot giving her brother Enzo "a sisterly kiss on the chin" was cut due to BS&P's fear of promoting [[incest]], an insinuation which Pearson described as "one of the sickest things I've heard."<ref name=wired />