[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'220829\' date=\'Jul 22 2009, 02:05 PM\']I'm thinking all 61 cards were hot pressed. In order to keep up with production they'd have to make 61 of those multi-line cards per day[/b], so I'm thinking they must have had five or six full-time "artists" churning them out. Based on my limited experience in TV graphics during that era, I can't think of any other technology they would have used. Nowadays if you wanted to do 61 hard art cards like that you'd do it all on computer and print the background (blue part) onto white or yellow card stock and have gallons and gallons of blue ink on hand.[/quote]
Yep. Nowadays, we just print a decal or stick a piece of cardstock into a printer...and trim it with a paper guillotine and an exacto knife.
I have appreciation for those roots. Stickers on posterboard, hotpress, slides, anyway you slice it. It was quite a beast back then for the production value. Even though I do everything cgi, I still am a purist by heart. I'm more of a fan of watching a spinning trilon, over a video monitor.