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From: DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Animation:JOURNEYMAN
Message-ID: <90264.141331DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 18:13:31 GMT
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     Could someone post/send a comparison between Journeyman and Imagine!?
I am in the market for a GOOD 3d animation package.  I am quite familiar with
Sculpt/Animate 4D, but think that the rendering of animations is somewhat
jerky unless you have a ridiculous number of points on your motion paths.
(Still a bit inexperienced on the Animation side, but I managed to draw a
pretty convincing Enterprise!)
     Also, has anyone heard of "Live!"?  I heard it was a board that did some
real-time digitizing of video signals.  There was also a program that could be
used with it (but I forgot the name) that would trigger an event by doing
collision detection on the digitized image.  I.E. I could stick out my hand
and trigger a picture of a ball flying from my hand.  (This would be a good
way to synch animation to live action, which is what I had in mind, curiously
enough!).  Anyone know about it/have a price for it/know where I can get it
at all?  Thanks in advance!

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