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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren at Siggraph/JPL 3/12/91
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Date: 15 Mar 91 17:44:16 GMT
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>In article <7989@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>>So he took an S-VHS camera and himself into a dark room at his
>>house and photographed himself eight times singing the song.

mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>So are you saying that there are only 8 different frames of Todd singing
>or that he made 8 complete videos of himself singing?
>If he made complete videos and didn't just capture single frames, do
>you know how he digitized the image sequences from the videos which
>were to be mapped into Lightwave?

Well I got the answer to this from NewTek about an hour after I posted the
question, so I thought I would follow it up for anyone interested....
Todd recorded the entire animation using the new Sony recordable video
disk unit (I think its something like LV5000) which lists for about $20K.
This unit allows flawless single frame record and playback and has composite,
component, and RGB video inputs. It is spectacular! Anyway, to digitize
himself, he recorded himself singing on the Sony and then wrote an ARexx
script to control the Sony and the Toaster. The Sony would bring up each
frame one at a time and the Toaster would grab them and store them off to
the hard disk.
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