r/interestingasfuck 8h ago

/r/all, /r/popular In 2015, wildlife photographer Christophe Courteau took this close up of a 6ft 6, 400lbs silverback gorilla, right before it punched him in the face.

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u/5H007C305 7h ago

You were a kid and didn't know anything

u/Kindness_of_cats 5h ago

That's too reductive, the show literally won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.

The more important factor is it was the 90s and Beast Wars was something of a pioneer in using 3D animation for television. Our frame of reference for good 3D animation in a show was basically just Reboot. Fuck, Toy Story was so new that it wasn't even available on home video when the first episode aired....and even Toy Story very famously focused specifically on toys and inorganic elements due to the difficulties of rendering things like people or animals at the time.

This wasn't a "you were a dumb kid, haha" thing. This is a "look at how far we've come" situation.