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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where are the Amiga commercials?
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Date: 2 Nov 89 04:34:42 GMT
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In article <621@crash.cts.com> pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Altamore) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from bear@bu-pub.bu.edu
>
>I don't know where they got the animation, but from watching the commercial a
>few times i'll bet that they assembled the entire shebang on videotape and
>just played it through the 1084 while they shot the commercial. I've never
>played that baseball game Stevie was playing, but I doubt a commercial game
>like that multitasks.
>

That was no game, that was DPaint III! Riechart vonWolfshield did that over
about a weeks worth of time. By now you now that Leo did the space station
animation, although Riechart told me that he (Riechart) originally wanted to do
a souped up version of Galileo. But the Ad-critters wanted more motion,
so they went with the Space Station. (which was done using Turbo Silver
BTW).

I really like the print ad. Breaks the traditional "My-computer-can-do-
pie-charts-really-really-fast!" kind of ads. The sweep of the testimonials
shows the versitility of the thing. I'd like to see video versions of those
on TV beside the Stevie ads.


mike




                                                      *** mike smithwick ***

"Los Angeles : Where neon goes to die"
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]