Painted Windows

Quite simply, one of the finest action-packed 3D cartoons you could ever hope to see. This was the series at its most creative, with plenty of new things to see upon repeat viewing. The surreal plot of having a mad virus use a paint program to paint over the city sees vast globs of paint flood through buildings and streets, stylised streets and fellow virus Megabyte's lair being transformed into Van Gogh's flowers display. A plethora of artists' styles are used imaginatively, and really push the CGI to the limit. But the killer attraction here is the inch-perfect storyline that builds up to a terrific crescendo, especially in Hexadecimal's Lair. The tension that mounts up in that final scene is breathtaking. There are far too many brilliant aspects to this episode that can be told in this short review- but this was a significant milestone in the series- it gave both Bob and Hexadecimal an extra layer to their character and showed how the dark, deep and electrifiyng potential of the series was first imagined from this point. It's also one ofthe last 'standalone' episodes, before the show became a long-running story with several arcs.