Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:42946 comp.sys.amiga:44384 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!claris!sts!ditka!qiclab!baer From: baer@qiclab.UUCP (Ken Baer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What is best 24bit 3d Anim system under $12,000 Message-ID: <3278@qiclab.UUCP> Date: 24 Nov 89 18:11:09 GMT References: <22607@gryphon.COM> Reply-To: baer@qiclab.UUCP (Ken Baer) Organization: Animators Anonymous, Portland, Oregon. Lines: 49 In article <22607@gryphon.COM> jandreas@pnet02.gryphon.com (Jason Andreas) writes: >macintosh version of SA4D as of yet doesn't have Animation capabilities like >the amiga version, but i was told E. Graham was working on this, along with >texturing. Are you sure the Mac version doesn't do animation? At SIGGRAPH, they were implying that it did. Especially when they showed the CrackFish animation and claimed it was rendered on a Mac. I heard from other people that it was actually rendered on an Amiga with a Targa board. > JourneyMan is great, plus a few of the 7 modules are shipping NOW! I should clarify this a little. Journeyman is VERY close, but it is not shipping yet. It will be available as a complete package this Spring. Like our Apprentice package, it's modular, i.e. the modeling, action design, choreographing, and rendering are different executables. In Journeyman they are called Sculpture, Direction, Character, Action, and Render. All the modules except for Action are about to go into Beta testing. We are making the Beta modules available to Apprentice owners so we can get more feedback, and so they can play with this new technology right away. The people to buy the early modules get the whole package for free when it comes out. The way things are going, you may not need Apprentice to use the Beta version (we have more code done than we forsaw). Journeyman is really a breakthrough in character animation technology on the computer. And, yes, it's 24-bit. You can render any Amiga resolution, and we plan to support as many frame buffers as we can get our hands on. We also plan to support the Univ. of Lowell Hires Board, since it's ideal for animation. >The digital animation production's board is great if we can just get some real >software running. We'd support it if they sent us one. We've talked with them many times about it. > I would take a serious look in to The JourneyMan by Hash Enterprises Thanks for the endorsement! Did you see Journeyman at SIGGRAPH? >UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!jandreas >INET: jandreas@pnet02.gryphon.com -- // -Ken Baer. Programmer/Animator, Hash Enterprises. \X/ Usenet: baer@qiclab.UUCP or PLink: KEN BAER "I want to be an ..... ARCH VILLIAN!!!" -- Petey Pate.