Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!en.ecn.purdue.edu!huebner
From: huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Animation on NewTek DemoReel 3
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.074843.9716@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 07:48:43 GMT
References: <1372@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Organization: Commission for the safe & ethical use of mints and lozenges
Lines: 27

In article <1372@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>
>Anyone know how the animation was done on NewTek's DemoReel 3?  I found
>the iff files that contain the individual frames, but I don't have a
>clue about what file(s) are used to animate them.
>
>Any advice/tutorials/pointers would be greatly appreciated...
>-- 
>Dave Schaumann | dave@cs.arizona.edu | Short .sig's rule!

I'm not certain about the diskette files, but I can tell you that
the author of that demo reel and others uses The Director to do the
finishing work on the demos.  I was fortunately enough to catch a
talk he gave at AmiExpo LA, and he showed some of his work.  He
uses a variety of tools but repeatedly said that he swears by
the Directors ability to bring it all together.  The Director
has also recently come out with a major upgrade (At least in terms
of version number) to 2.0.

As with most amiga artists, I presume that the initial stuff was done
with DeluxePaint 3.  Did the NewTek DigitFX program advertised in the
reel ever masterialise?

-- 
| Robert E. Huebner                   | "Death is nature's way of telling  |
| huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu           |  you to slow down"                 |
| huebner@aerospace.aero.org          |   - Unknown Author                 |