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From: nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself"
Summary: Pixar animations
Message-ID: <3003@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 5 Mar 91 12:38:36 GMT
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In article <8477@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>
> Their adventure into hardware was obsolete before it was released.
> Programmers are quitting the company.  They haven't produced anything
> since "Knick-Knack".  Expect them to go belly up sometime soon,
> leaving Pacific Data Images as the only professional computer 3-D
> animation company around.  Their problem is the same as all the other
> animation companies.  It's just too damn expensive to produce those
> things.  A pity, because I love Pixar's work (especially Luxo, Jr.).
> 
>            Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
>            Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.



Everybody seems to like Pixar's work, particularily Luxo, Jr.  Does anybody
know where their work is available. It seems like somebody posted a source
a year or two back for a tape with three of the biggies (Luxo, Jr., Red's
Dream, Tin Toy). Sure love to get these if still available.




---Mike


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