Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!) Message-ID: <1990Aug12.165758.17138@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 12 Aug 90 16:57:58 GMT References: <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 35 In article ked01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >In article <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >> >> 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?) I remember now: They were showing off LightWave. There was also an animation in the rejects show (a friend at Pixar told me it was the "animation for the artistically impaired" show) produced on an Amiga with "LighWave". It was "Rush Hour", by Allen Hastings, produced on an Amiga 2000 using NewTek LighWave. >What was NewTek's "story" this time concerning actual availability? Price? $1495? $1595? GA is not been specified, but "developers are getting units already". For $1600 you get a VT and a calculator (according to Penn and Teller :-). One more thing: "Animation - Agony & Ecstasy 30 Times a Second" was shown in the Screening Room. It was produced on an Amiga 500 with Deluxe Paint 2.0 and Quickflix 1.03 by Stephen A. Wroble. It got the most applause I heard for any of the stuff shown in the rejects show. (This is a very funny quick slide-show about trying to do animation on an Amiga.) There were a total of 5 Amiga-based animations in the Screening Room. -- J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120 Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Skate UNIX(r)