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London," Pearson recalls, "hav-ing just finished Dire Straits,which had killed us, and I said Iwanted to do a half-hour prime-time show with this. And-Gavinsaid I must be out of rny mind!"Yet the technolory kept evolv-ing. "Ten years ago was a mil-lion years ago, in terms of com-puters," Pearson says. Fellowcomputer animators John Graceand Phil Mitchell separatelycame aboard, forming a four-some incorporated as The Hub.Pearson moved to Los Angelesand devoted a year to shaping upa script and peddling the project.Eventually, Toronto-based Alli-ance Communications joined asa backer and TV distributor.Of course, ROM wasn't builtin a day: The first episode took18 months from conception tocompletion. Today, each takesabout 10 animators four to sixweeks to produce on SiliconGraphics workstations employ-ing the program Softimage,which was used for some of the"Jurassic Park" dinosaurs.The series became a prime-time hit on Canada's YTV net-work and simultaneously.a cult

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