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From: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: The Computer Animation Show
Message-ID: <162@laic.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 23:13:22 GMT
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In article <583@oscvax.UUCP>, jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt) writes:
> However, no one has mentioned the three (3) Pixar creations:
> 	- Red's Dream
> 	- TinCan and OilSlick (sp?)
> 	- Junior
> 

An interesting side note on "Red's Dream" - 

At the latest SIGGRAPH (sorry Uncle Leo, if I get the exact facts wrong)
"Red's Dream" was shown.  That night, Leo Schwab, Amiga Hacker, started
using his new copy of VideoScape 3D on his Amiga and "re-created" part
of Red's Dream (albeit, lower resolution, un-raytraced, but NTSC compatible)
overnight.  The next day, it was shown at an Amiga booth.  Some people
from Pixar (presumably, those who had spent much more than one night
of work) were quite distraught...  Leo didn't purposely want to be-little
Pixar or Red's Dream, just to show off the Amiga.  Anyway, letter's exchanged
between Pixar and Leo.  The concept of a Red Unicycle juggling balls 
was "copywritable", so Leo was prohibited from showing his demo.
However, the president of Pixar did agree that a "parody" could not
fall under Copywrite laws.  Leo proceeded to create just a parody..
The parody had a "boing" ball (very unofficial Amiga logo) juggling
three unicycles!!

No animosity towards Pixar is intended in this message, I am just
relating an amusing story (as well as trying to explain an
inside Amiga joke).

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