In my opinion while the N64 had better overall processing power, it's memory limit undercut whatever graphical advantages it had over the PS1. Blurry textures alone are enough to have made games like OoT age like milk.

@ Ryan-Petre Ps1 didn’t have that much better texture resolution. It only had more memory allowing for a bigger number of textures, but under the bigger limit of more limited distance draw and geometrical complexity limits. If the n64 had cd-> ram architecture (I’m simplifying a lot) while keeping the graphical/processor capabilities of the hardware games like ff7 or resident evil not only they would be more possible but also more complex (more similar to the first dino crisis with more geometrical complexity?) N64 had “inferior” hardware mainly in the choice of keeping the absolutely obsolete game cartridge design, that destroyed their third party support and kept production cost insanely high (psx disk were printed for 1$, a n64 cartridge production costed 30$. In 90ies inflation) and with incredibly limited space (for slightly faster load times and underused secondary hardware customisation) Compare and contrast turok 3 with vagrant story, both games that somewhat push the 3d capabilities of their respective hardware.

@@lespena3722 I understand your point, but I feel like that's only true if you're looking at it from a meta perspective and cross comparing it with every other version. Whereas the average Fantasia 2000 member is encountering the Steadfast Soldier story for the first time.

@@MattyStoked Thanks mate.

Makes sense, seeing as Eric Goldberg clearly took influence from Hirschfeld's caricatures in his character designs, even before taking on this short literally made to pay tribute to Hirschfeld's artwork.

Dance of Pearls, my friend

thanks, pal.

Indeed. The short is an interesting time capsule on how much was known about dinosaurs back then. As wildly inaccurate as much of the depictions are now known to be, it is intriguing to see how much was nonetheless already known, even as we have since learned stuff about them having feathers rather than scales, or the expanded ability to date the fossil record delineating which species actually could have coexisted, etc.

The name of the leading ostrich was Mademoiselle Upanova. (Get it?) Also, for the segment with the elephants, the piece is actually expanded.

@@angreagach what actually got expanded too was the scene with Hyacinth Hippo and her attendants because it´s basically the same score of the second part of Madame Upanova dancing alone first and then with all the other ostriches since when she lands on ground after having that epic soaring jump on the hights after the others (In the original ballet and opera this happens with the chorus singing "Prodigio, incanto" / Prodigy, charming" in awe after the ballet number on scene.) and then all what happens with her on the fruits untill she and the other ostriches loose the grapes into the fountain where later on rises Hyacinth as a parody of Botticelli´s Birth of Venus and eats the fruit thrown over her before! All that music is doubled for all the hyppos scene but in a funny tune with other instruments to make noticeable the wierd overwheighted and yet swifty movement on her and her attendants. The Elephants use the score of the Hour of the Afternoon or Evening (La Sera time in Italian) - the ballet has 5 movements: the Hours of Morning (the start of all) matched by Madame Upanova and ostriches, then goes the climatic Hour of the Day or Noon (repeated as Madame Upanova continues the scene and then goes into funny tune by Hyacinth Hippo and attendants time), then the Hour of the Afternoon to Evening (La Sera or Dusky Time), then the Hour of Night (scene with crocodyles and Ben Ali Gator) and the frantic Coda Finale ensemble of all together.

@@lhadzyan7300 My memory may have played a trick on me. Not sure whether the elephant or the hippo section was the extension. It was the second of those, whichever it was.

@@angreagach it was Hyacinth Hippo section which doubled Madame Upanova second part of its performance in other tuning. It might have been confusion because on the original ballet during the Hours of Evening section, there happens a repeat naturally occuring using themes from the previous Hour of the Day/Noon, as if it means Dusk time doesn´t struck straightforward but goes somewhat insiduous first on the Afternoon which later turns into Evening of late Day time after an intermission on how the brighter time of the Day wanes down yet got some glimpses back for a brief time before full Dusk time strokes naturally on. (This happens when all the Elephants surround Hyacinth to trough at her the bubbles but she eats them after being yawning, when they leave to keep dancing and playing with the bubbles on their own.) So it´s naturallly doubled from the ballet score half-way on the Elephants time, but it had been fully doubled but into another instrumental setting for all Hyacinth and her attendants time right after when it had ended with Madame Upánova section and before the Elephants came on with the Afternoon-Evening time!.