Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: What's the story? Message-ID: <1991Jan20.000850.10541@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 20 Jan 91 00:08:50 GMT References: <38160@cup.portal.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 23 Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes: > xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent, the man from xanth) writes: >> [Since there is bad blood between Pixar and the Amiga community going >> back to Pixar's heavy handed suppression of Leo Schwab's "Red's >> Dream" Amiga animation, it probably isn't a good bet that Pixar will >> _ever_ do an Amiga Renderman implementation themselves.] > What bad blood? What 'Red's Dream' animation? What suppression? > Inquiring minds want to know! I don't think it's worth rehashing in detail here. Leo saw a first showing of Red's Dream, went home and hacked a great Amiga animation of a unicycle juggling balls, Pixar told him it infringed their movie and to withdraw it from circulation, Leo replaced it with an animation of a ball juggling unicycles, Pixar got egg on their face and a reputation for bullying the little guy. Some of us have long memories. Kent, the man from xanth. -- OXII bellied up and got bought out! Yay!