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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!)
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Date: 14 Aug 90 13:01:20 GMT
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In article <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>Loads of A3000's, in a booth equivalent to Sun or any other workstation
>class vendor.  They were showing Disney's Animation package, Animation
>Station (I think it was AS.  It had Bezier curve based animation and
>"spines" for objects), ASDG stuff, X software, etc.  It was way cool.

I think you have a few different products mixed up. Disney Animation
Studio was being demoed next to Hash Animation Journeyman. It was
Journeyman that was doing spline surface 3D objects being animated
on spline motion paths. The Disney product is a 2D cel animator.

>NewTek had a large booth, showing the VideoToaster live and in action.
>They had a unit you could play with ("keep it away from that guy over
>there in the suit" the woman who let me look at the card told me.
>Later examination of his badge showed he was from Sony. :-)  They
>also had a 4d rendering package (Imagine?  Is that from NewTek?)
>being demoed; and, of course, the Penn and Teller demo tape.

Imagine is an Impulse product which was being demoed with the Firecracker
frame buffer over at the Commodore booth. The NewTek renderer is called
LightWave 3D. Both it and the Toaster made quite an impression at the show.
I overheard a couple of Exhibitors by the RasterOps booth trying to convince
a Mac owner that for her video work, she would be better off selling her
Mac and getting an Amiga/Toaster combination rather than wasting any more
money on the Mac. Pretty good advice coming from a couple of Macintosh
peripheral people.
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