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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!)
Summary: correction, Journeyman
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.184117.16528@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 15 Aug 90 18:41:17 GMT
References: <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu>
Organization: Animators Anonymous, Portland, Oregon
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In article <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>  They were showing Disney's Animation package, Animation
>Station (I think it was AS.  It had Bezier curve based animation and
>"spines" for objects)

The new Disney package (formerly Onion, formerly Backlight) is called Disney
presents The Animation Studio.  It is a program for doing 2D Cel animation,
by hand (you do the in-betweening, not the program).

The program with spline curves, was Animation:Journeyman from Hash Enterprises
(I was the one showing it).  BTW, they weren't Bezier curves, they are a 
new kind of 3D spline that we developed.  Another important distinction between
the Disney program and Journeyman is that JMan is 3D.  I just wanted to 
clear up this misunderstanding.

>NewTek had a large booth, showing the VideoToaster live and in action.
>They also had a 4d rendering package (Imagine?  Is that from NewTek?)

You mean Allen Hasting's new animation program for the Toaster?  It's called
LightWave, and it's fantastic.  Imagine is the new program from Impulse that
was also in the Commodore booth.  
>--
>J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120



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