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From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which paint programs should I support?
Message-ID: <649@nunki.usc.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 88 17:35:30 GMT
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Reply-To: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
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Keywords: Animation maddness
Summary: You've got enough covered

In article <2618@tekig5.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>
>I getting ready an animation package for the ST.  We want to start selling it
>this summer....
>This program requires a paint program to make it really useful.  So I'm trying
>to get a handle on which paint programs I should support.  I don't want to do
>more than is needed yet I want to have a reasonable choice for the user.
>
>So far my short term goals are:
>
>        1. work well with NeoChrome and Degas
>        2. work well with Spectrum 512 (this is the program I'll hope my 
>           user use as 512 color displays are really nice for animation) 
>
>A few months down the road I want to also be compatible the CAD 3D and  Cyber
>Paint.  
>
>Is that enough are do people need other support.  I don't what to support
>something that only 1 or 2 people need, yet I want to cover the bases.  So
>far I'm not impressed with the more than 512 color displays and am steering
>away from them.  So what paint programs are people using?


  Well, I still stick with NeoChrome, and I *love* it!

  I can tell you, however, that everybody I know who uses an ST in animation/
art/graphics/demos/etc. use either DEGAS Elite (not the old DEGAS, that's
"obsolete") and/or the Cyber/CAD-3D things from Antic.

  If you've got DEGAS Elite and CAD-3D support, I think you're on solid ground
(kudos for Tom Hudson!).


  Speaking of animation, does anyone in netland know whatever's happened to
Broderbund's "Arti Director/Film Director" package for the ST? They've
announced it so long ago, and I'm *still* waiting! (Cel animation is the only
way to go!) Is this just so much vaporware, or can I still wait on Broderbund
to pull through for me? For an $80 art/animation package, that's a steal!


						--R.J.
						B-)
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