Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders Message-ID: <1069@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 91 07:15:45 GMT References: <469@tlvx.UUCP> <14124@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 34 In article <14124@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ignatz@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60189000) writes: > >Im an animation student, meaning I churn out lots and lots of animated >drawings daily. Currently I shoot them with a super 8 camera and wait >about a week before seeing results. Ive been looking for a decent >pencil test alternative which with I wouldnt have to wait weeks to view. >Video camcorders dont quite seem to offer exactly what I need, at least >the ones I can afford dont, and I certainly cant go out and buy a lyon-lamb >pencil test system. Here's the scoop -- I have an amiga 500 which Ive >been playing around with for computer animation. Im wondering--can anyone >tell me a way to connect a video digitizer to it, which could digitize >each drawing (from paper via video camera) and store it in the computer >in such a way that I can flip say 30 pages? I do not need color, or sharp >resolution (low res would be fine) because this is just pencil testing >and only the motion is important. Forgive me when I can't give you many precise product names, I only know there *is* really such a beast existing. You have two alternatives: 1. You do also the drawing on your Amiga. As far as I hear, Disney Animation studio (this is a software!) is 100 % what you seem to need. 2. You really do it by digitizing your paper drawings with a camera. If you have done this frame for frame, you perhaps have to process your image files to convert them down to one single bitplane, only b&w. This gives you the advantage of working with extremely small files that are processed fast and loaded/displayed fast. To bind together such a bunch of files to one animation, there exist tools like PageFlipper, but also others (would DPIII do?) also in the Public Domain. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk