Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekig5!wayneck
From: wayneck@tekig5.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which paint programs should I support?
Message-ID: <2632@tekig5.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 18:17:29 GMT
References: <2618@tekig5.TEK.COM> <649@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Keywords: Animation maddness

In article <649@nunki.usc.edu>, rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
> 
>   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!
> 
Thanks for your input.  I'm curious to know why you feel that Cel animation is
the only way to go.  It seems nice for some effects but on the whole very 
limited or at least very time consuming to do really nice animation.  Do you
like Cel animation because it is easier to do or it there some other values of
it I'm not aware.  By the way isn't Aegis Animator about $80 dollars, it is a
Cel animator, also isn't Cyber Paint mainly just a Cel animator for about $70.

I think the that Cad3D, Cyber Paint, other paint programs, Aegis Animator,
Animator:Apperetice (The one I'm working on), raytracers, and special effects
packages are just tools in an animators toolbox.  In an ideal sitution the 
animator should be able just to pick whatever tool he wants for whatever effect
he is working on and with this picking and choosing build any animation he
wants to.  

                                     Wayne Knapp