Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!littlei!reed!percival!baer
From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: the Computer Animation show
Message-ID: <1100@percival.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 17:38:46 GMT
References: <457@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <1676@desint.UUCP> <5242@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Organization: Funkytown Software (a Division of Hash Enterprises)
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Keywords: SIGGRAPH '88

In article <5242@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <1676@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>>However, there was also one other really exceptional film involving
>>stick-figure acrobats;  I don't remember the title or the source, but
>>it was produced on an Amiga in somebody's bedroom.
>
>	_Dance of The Stumblers_, by Steve Segal.  Rendered on an Amiga 1000
>
>>To me, plot and humor are much more important than ray-tracing.
>>
>	Well said.  I'm getting tired of seeing steel spheres and metallic
>Monday Night Football logos myself, too.

Keep your eyes open at SIGGRAPH this year, there is some stuff being done
for the show that will knock your socks off (judging from the storyboards).
Real artists and animators are really starting to use the animation
packages for the Amiga, and most of them are bored with steel spheres too.
With the new wave of easy to use 3D animation packages, I think we'll be
seeing a lot more animation for animation's sake.  The artists and animators
can finally concentrate on the story they are trying to tell, and not how
they will render it.  I think we have a lot of great animation to look
forward to.

-- 
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