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From: unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where are the Amiga commercials?
Message-ID: <8407@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 89 19:36:08 GMT
References: <621@crash.cts.com> <163@intersil.uucp>
Reply-To: unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <163@intersil.uucp> hamilton@intersil.uucp (Fred Hamilton) writes:
$In article <621@crash.cts.com>, pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Altamore) writes:
$
$
$> 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.

It is obvious from the above statements that you are not aware of what the
Amiga can really do in terms of Video and Animation!

The animations used in the commercials were all being played back real time 
from an Amiga to the monitor in S-VHS mode. You are seeing the system run as
the anims were playing, The only usgae of video tape playback was in "Girl Next
Door" commercial where we played the sequence back to the girls television
set from the overlayed tape.  The Baseball animation was done by Silent
Software as was the space Animation "Leo Schwab" and the Music Animation By
Reichart. The Girl Next Door graphics and the Best New Album graphic at the
Music awards opening were done by Rick Probst of Pacific Motion, He also has
done Three Men and A Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, DOA, Shoot To Kill, and a slew 
of other Trailor Titles as well as the openings for the new tv show RollerGames.
He works exclusivly on the Amiga for design and then goes to high End rendering
Systems for final.

The "Levitation animation was done by HollenBeck Design and was also played 
back in real time from the Amiga.  So as you can see Everytime the 
Amiga was supposed to be doing something, IT Was!  And you might ask how I know?
I was in charge of the Technical for the commercials and every time you see
anything on the Amiga in the AD, I was controlling it. Also just for the record
Everything that you see was designed to run on a Three megabyte Amiga 500.


$> 
$
$If you're talking about the space station animation, it was done by Leo
$Schwab.  He showed it at the BKDC.  I don't think the "game" (game?  This
$is a SERIOUS computer!) exists, it was another animation.
$                                                         
$
$Fred Hamilton                  Any views, comments, or ideas expressed here
$Harris Semiconductor           are entirely my own.  Even good ones.
$Santa Clara, CA


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