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Anime-01 Lost Planet Series Updates Preview Video Clips of Lost Planet Still Frames from Lost Planet Series Lost Planet Series Project Log	The Lost Planet Series Notes About Contrast Between Lost Planet Animation and Original Novel This page was included to explain the contrasting differences between the Lost Planet Animation Project and the Lost Planet Novel located elsewhere on this site. To begin with, I should point out that the variable art of subcreation through different mediums often takes upon different forms even when covering the same subject. In this case, I will attempt to explain the differences between the Lost Planet Novel and its version as depicted within the animated medium. The first and foremost cause of the differences has to do with the sheer complexity of the situation presented by the novel. After under-taking the project to animate the novel, I realized that certain extremely graphic and complicated elements were beyond my abilities as an animator and beyond the limited tools of the computer programs at my disposal. In an effort to simplify the work involved within the project, I decided that certain elements were not actually necessary and that the extra work required for them would slow the project down while adding very little of anything that could not be simply omitted without doing any real harm to the basic story-line. One element, a device actually, which was used in the novel and omitted in the animation was the network of tethers and cables that Querzo put in place to aid in his movement about the Valkon and the asteroid. It occurred to me, while facing this problem, that perhaps the asteroid's gravity need not be so low and that Querzo's heavy, magnetized boots and environmental suit would also weigh him down quite well, such that the tethers and cables were not really necessary. At the same time, it was also unecessary to put the Valkon so close to the edge of the canyon that the low gravity and motion of the asteroid through space would cause it to slip and risk sliding into the canyon, so the cables to secure it were also not necessary. In the novel, these devices helped to emphasize the seriousness of Querzo's situation and all the hard work he had to perform to maintain his survival. In the animation, however, all this extra work would simply slow and impede the actual progress of the plot, which is his discovery of the ancient artifacts in the cavern. After the discovery of the artifacts, the other major difference is the hydrovector. It also has been eliminated from the animation because it involved too much extra work and because it also would appear somewhat unrealistic and too fantastic a device for a science fiction animation series. Whatever the reason, I decided it would be much easier to simply have Querzo discover an underground source of water in the form of a huge cache of ice, and since the batheopath had once contained a well-spring, then it was the perfect place for it. Essentially, by pointing out these differences, I hope to secure the understanding that the mediums of the written word and animation are so different that such changes in the details of the story-line are sometimes necessary in the art of subcreation of fiction and fantasy, and that despite the differences, the animation is nevertheless still based upon the novel and follows the general story-line and plot. This notation should also dispel any notion that the subcreators of the animation have violated any copyright details or stolen any ideas that did not belong to them. That is quite impossible, for the simple fact is, I, Nick Zentor, am the sole creator of both versions of the Lost Planet, in both mediums. Nick Zentor, 12/18/06