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Aparently, you have taked my message as an offense to animators in general, and 3d animators particurarly. By the contrary, my message is only intended to express my admiration to the work of the _artist_ who do or did classic 2d animation. My words regarding parts of my anatomy are an exaggeration that I think explain my DEEP admiration to the talents of this men and women who makes possible the birth of a new form of communication, and in last place, a new form of art with HUGE influences in cinematography. In any case, my intention is to express that admiration which is the result of DEEP study and never I want injure any creative spirit in the forum. HOWEVER, there some personal references which I want to answer. Paul, fortunately, my opinions are not based in the Saturday morning cartoons (BTW, we don't have that show in Spain). My admiration to ALL the classic animators (and not only the Great Ones, that have won Oscars and other awards -anyone here with an Oscar?- plus the admiration of all the industry) is the result of SIX years of study on advertisement and art, plus one year of preparation of my final thesis (I don't know the word in english for that) on art (titled "Computer and Classic Animation: Looking for a New Communication Form", which is a "little" 258 pages paper -including Index and bibliographic pages-). Man, it's not an exageration to say that all my life is oriented to the art field, especially photography, illustration, painting and -yes!- animation -no tool is bad to express yourself:). Along my studies on advertisement, I also do some HARD study and research on cinematography (with especial care to the study of kinetics and animation, and the formalism movements) and colaborations in some fanzines and commercial magazines as art and movies critic and as illustrator. If you ask for documentation instead of personal knowledge achieved during several years of study and own work as an artist, I can show you more than 200 hours (223) of cartoons, movies, interviews, documentaries; several original [More]