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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Journeyman V1.1 (was Re: Imagine)
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.183353.13714@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 90 18:33:53 GMT
References: <6420@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Animators Anonymous, Portland, OR.
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In article <6420@crash.cts.com> bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from baer@qiclab.uucp
>
>Ken,
>
>What about a demo version of Journeyman?  Most of us are VERY interested in
>your product but we don't want to plunk down $500 of hard earned cash on a
>product we've never seen and can't get a demo on.

Yes, we're still planning a demo version, probably of the Direction module
with built in objects.  We just finished V1.1 last week, which was 
consuming 100% of our time.  I agree, a demo version is important, but
making the program rock solid is more important (and it is now).  There are
however some Journeyman users on the net who could tell you about it,
Sean Cunningham is one of them.

>  In fact, we haven't even
>seen a single animation or rendered image from your product.  I'm sure there
>must be SOMETHING around now that you guys are at version 1.1.  

Most of the stuff we've done is related to the film we're doing, and won't
be released until the project is done.  The rendering has improved 
dramaticly with V1.1, and since it's only been out for a week, there
aren't many ANIMs from it in circulation.  However, there should be soon.
And we should start seeing some JMan animation from CalArts soon, since
they are planning to teach a course with it.

>We will seriously consider Journeyman and even recommend it if we can get some
>paper literature, demo of the software and sample images/animations.  BTW, do
>you have a dealer program?

We only sell direct.  The only dealers we would consider for Journeyman
are dedicated video solutions dealers.  We personalize the software for
every customer, if we went through dealers we would have to use key disk
copy protection (and we really don't want to do that).  It works best
when we can deal direct with customers.

>-- Bob
>    UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!bobl         |         Pro-Graphics: 908/469-0049


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