A live production of Blue's Clues, which used many of the production innovations developed by the show's creators, toured the U. S. starting in 1999.

Many cult films were independent films and were not expected by their creators to have mainstream success.

* In the film Tron, a programmer was physically transferred to the program world, where programs were personalities, resembling the forms of their creators.

Two of the series ' three creators, comedy writers Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth, were from Canada.

When creators became aware of this problem, karaoke machines were no longer being sold strictly for the purpose of karaoke but as home theater systems to enhance television watching to " movie theater like quality ".

Canaanites were the creators of the oldest known 24-letter alphabet, a shortening of earlier 30-letter alphabets such as Proto-Sinaitic and Ugaritic.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine Greeks born in Thessaloniki, were the creators of the first Slavic Glagolitic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language.

These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan.

If they had any significant level of non-organic parts then something as simple as an x-ray scan would show them not to be human ( unless their creators designed the non-organic parts to have almost exactly the same structure and density as the organic components they were replacing, which would be both infeasible and highly improbable but not completely out of the question ).

id Software, the creators of Wolfenstein 3D, oversaw the development and were credited as executive producers.

The show's creators claim that they were not engaging in a product placement strategy for commercial gain.

Initially, Folken and Dilandau were a single enemy commander, but as the story fleshed out, the creators felt the series would be more interesting if there were two with very different personalities.

The FastTrack protocol uses encryption and was not documented by its creators, and the first clients were all closed source software.

Instances of Engrish due to poor translation were frequently found in many early video games produced in Japan, oftentimes due to the creators not having enough ( or just not wanting to spend enough ) money for a proper translation.

Some of the philosophical languages of the 17th-18th centuries could be regarded as proto-auxlangs, as they were intended by their creators to serve as bridges among people of different languages as well as to disambiguate and clarify thought.

The older version of Threepio's origins originated with George Lucas, and both versions were harmonized from the outset: in 1977, Lucas provided a guide for early Expanded Universe creators, in which Threepio's origin on Affa was established, and also the statement that he was " totally reassembled by a young boy working for a junk dealer " before joining the Alderaanian diplomatic corps " several years " later.

After the success of the short story in the House of Secrets comic, the original creators were asked to write an ongoing series, depicting a more heroic, more contemporary creature.

Self-awareness increased their capabilities by an order of magnitude, and as the creators of wathan technology, they understood it to the degree that they were able to " catch " wathans released by their own deaths, resurrecting themselves endlessly-or so they thought.

Since his manners and tastes were different than the other characters ', his creators hoped to address social issues by using his differences as a metaphor for racial and ethnic differences.

Although " Eight Days a Week " and " What You're Doing " are well regarded by many fans, they were regarded negatively by their creators: McCartney dismissed " What You're Doing " as " a bit of filler ... Maybe it's a better recording than it is a song ...", while Lennon referred to " Eight Days a Week " in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine as " lousy ".

Although he instituted an art return program, and implemented a policy which gave creators royalties when their books passed certain sales benchmarks or when characters they worked on were licensed as toys, Shooter occasionally found himself in well-publicized conflicts with some writers and artists.

Though the Comics Code Authority had grown more lenient by the late 1960s, and was officially revised starting in 1971, some comic creators were including non-explicit innuendo or otherwise implied in stories that some characters were gay, though often in a negative light.

He has influenced many younger creators ( Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties ) and many have attempted to imitate his style.

His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Moebius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.

Vera Mukhina's Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture ( seen on a Russian stamp here on the right ) influenced the creators of the Goddess of Democracy

His early style seemed very much influenced by Jack Kirby, one of Marvel's leading creators from the 1960s, albeit with more realistic anatomy and a penchant for making his worlds seem bright and beautiful.

Piriya Krairiksh, an academic at the Thai Khadi Research institute, notes that the stele's treatment of vowels suggests that its creators had been influenced by European alphabet systems ; thus, he concludes that the stele was fabricated by someone during the reign of Rama IV himself, or shortly before.

Art films were also influenced by films by Spanish avant-garde creators such as Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí ( e. g., L ' Age d ' Or from 1930 ) and by the French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau ( e. g., The Blood of a Poet, also from 1930 ).

With the established and successful ABC daytime soaps veering into a new trend of youth orientation and action / adventure storylines, a format heavy influenced by Gloria Monty on General Hospital, creators Agnes Nixon and Douglas Marland set out to develop a new series that would be introduced as a traditional, classic soap opera for the 1980s.

In 2004, the Maison de la Bande Dessinée, a comics museum in Brussels dedicated to his works was created, later expanding its focus to the work of Jijé as well as the creators he has influenced.

The creators of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game were also strongly influenced by Tolkien.

In terms of visual layout, the creators of Jarte have been influenced by Mac OS X. Jarte bears a striking resemblance to TextEdit.

Two of the show's creators, Yaron Niski and Doron Tzur, actually served together as logistics soldiers in an Israeli military base and the show is influenced by their experiences there.

David Lloyd wrote about him Tony was one of just a very few strip artists here and in the US whose creative identities owed nothing to the heritage of stylisation which influenced many other newspaper adventure strip creators — he was primarily an illustrator who just happened to love drawing strips ......

The novel is widely assumed to have been an inspiration for Superman, though no confirmation exists that Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were influenced by it .< ref > Jones, Gerard.

Some look deliberately to devices used by creators in the other arts and apply corresponding methods to their own work.

The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to be marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its creators (" the street finds its own uses for things ").

Hägar the Horrible and Frank and Ernest are both drawn by the sons of the creators.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Marta Weigle further developed and refined this typology to highlight nine themes, adding elements such as deus faber, a creation crafted by a deity, creation from the work of two creators working together or against each other, creation from sacrifice and creation from division / conjugation, accretion / conjunction, or secretion.

De Vries has been " twisted " — made into an amoral sadist by his Tleilaxu creators.

F is described by its creators as " a compiled, structured, array programming language especially well suited to education and scientific computing.

A disclaimer before the 1996 film Fargo makes the claim that it is based on a true story, but this was repudiated by its creators, the Coen brothers, saying that people would more readily believe something outlandish if told that it actually happened, per the " truth is stranger than fiction " idiom.

are specifically designed by the creators to be canonical.

) are in this way being trusted by web browser creators to provide valid certificates.

The IPA is used by foreign language students and teachers, linguists, Speech-Language Pathologists, singers, actors, lexicographers, constructed language creators, and translators.

The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office ; it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed Java, from Java coffee, said to be consumed in large quantities by the language's creators.

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Like the creators of similar products, Kazaa's owners have been taken to court by music publishing bodies to restrict its use in the sharing of copyrighted material.

The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).

are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

Modeled on the successful collaborative approach and the compression technologies developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group and CCITT's Experts Group on Telephony ( creators of the JPEG image compression standard and the H. 261 standard for video conferencing respectively ), the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) working group was established in January 1988.

However, while the creators of the literary character of Morgan may have been somewhat inspired by the much older tales of the goddess, the relationship ends there.

Historian Werner Maser stated that " the claim that the Soviet Union was at the time threatened by Hitler, as Stalin supposed ,... is a legend, to whose creators Stalin himself belonged.

Two years after the web site was launched, the creators sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring.

The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.