Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!ucselx!crash!hrlaser From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself" Message-ID: <7745@crash.cts.com> Date: 26 Feb 91 20:11:21 GMT References: <7682@crash.cts.com> <61742@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <1991Feb25.092351.3084@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 57 In article <1991Feb25.092351.3084@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > > hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes: > >>The story I have on "Change Myself" is that Todd, who worked a lot with >>Macs, heard about the Toaster, bought himself one, got hooked on >>the LightWave 3D software, and decided to do an entire video using >>this combination. He consulted with LightWave 3D author Allen Hastings >[using ten Amiga/Toaster sets to finish in five weeks] > >A bit discouraging to think that a three minute video would take a full >year of the one machine user's time, but that aside, how do I get a copy >of this puppy into my dealer's hands and start really boosting Amiga >multimedia sales? In the heart of Silicon Valley, where most people have >more money than sense, this would really move a lot of CBM & Newtek >hardware. Oh, I don't know how discouraging it would be to think that a sing le user using a single Toaster would need a year to render over 7000 frames of LightWave animation, not to mention the time it must've taken to build the hundreds of objects he used. Ask Eric "Dr. Gandalf" Fleischer how long it took him to create his "Upgrade" animaiton which fills up 6 disks, all ray-traced in Turbo Silver. Sometimes I sit here futzing with Imagine for an entire day just to get one single still ray trace I'm satisfied with. Just the _idea_ of designing, debugging, and rendering 7000 frames sends shivers up and down my back. If the credits on my copy of the video are REALLY true, and Rundgren DID do almost all of the modeling and animation himself, then he's a genius. > > mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes: > >> In fact the feature of texture mapping image sequence (animations) >> onto surfaces was a Todd Rundgren request that Allen added. > >You guys want to mail me a copy of this puppy, I'll deliver it to HT >Electronics (since I don't own a TV) myself, just to see the demo once, >if you haven't already gotten a copy to them. > >Kent, the man from xanth. > I'd love to copy the tape and send it to ya but when I got it from NewTek it came with specific instructions not to duplicate it. Whether this is because of the degeneration it would suffer after a copy or for some other reason, I don't know. They didn't say. They just said "don't copy it" and I'm not going to. Suggest you phone NewTek in Kansas and see if they'll send you a copy. If they won't listen to you, ask your dealer to call them. Or call VH-1 or MTV and ask when they have it scheduled to run. Even if you don't have a TV/cable surely you know someone who does. Harv Laser {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser "Park and lock it. Not responsible." People/Link: CBM*HARV