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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where are the Amiga commercials?
Summary: Ask Leo
Message-ID: <735@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 89 01:38:52 GMT
References: <1922@nigel.udel.EDU> <992@wsu-cs.uucp> <41145@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <41145@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>If anyone out there knows how they did that space-station animation, ...

Leo Schwab admits to doing that one.  He showed it after the Killer Demo
contest.  It's a run-of-the-mill anim; starting full-screen shot of the
toroidal space station, move the camera back to see a wider view (including
the Earth in the background), then move an Apollo-type space craft until
it docks with the hub of the space station.  The sort of thing that
VideoScape-3D does all the time.

By the way: The space craft has writing on the side.  You can't read it
in the commercial, but it says "A500 EnterBoing".
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