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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Robocop II sucked, and had no Amiga Graphics
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Date: 6 Jul 90 15:30:02 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.160205.20538@csmil.umich.edu> <13691@wpi.wpi.edu> <11246@ingr.com> <3441@sactoh0.UUCP>
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In article <3441@sactoh0.UUCP> aaalexis@sactoh0.UUCP (Andrew A. Alexis) writes:
>In article <11246@ingr.com>, palmerc@ingr.com (Chris Palmer) writes:
>> In article <S#L$4-+@rpi.edu> ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery) writes:
>> >
>> >I think that it's quite possible that the robot "faces" (Robo's and Cane's,
>> >on Robo II) were, in fact, Amiga graphics.  They looked quite similar to
>> 
>> I am pretty sure the Cane (Kane?) face WAS NOT done on an Amiga.  If anyone
>> is doing that high quality of animation, I would like to know about it.

I would almost gaurantee that the Cane face was done with a Silicon
Graphics System. The whole thing looked remarkably similar to an SGI
demo that was presented at Siggraph two years ago which a 3D digitized
head was manipulated and rendered IN REAL TIME in sync with talking
and singing. It can be seen on the '88 Siggraph video review.
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