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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: (Tin Toy) Luxo Jr. video
Message-ID: <7403@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 09:25:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "Could you please continue the petty bickering?"  -- Data

In article <1690@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>Over the weekend I was hijacked ("Hey I just got back from vacation!..")
>to the Hacker's Conference.  Ed Catmull showed up for the world
>premiere showing of Tin Toy.
>
>Without spoiling you, it's not bad!  [ ... ]

	Yes, Tin Toy is quite good.  My only complaint is that the credits
roll by entirely too quickly.

>Everybody was trying to read the final credits about who's babies
>were used, and the interesting disclaimer at the end (about this
>film (bag) not being a toy).  [ ... ]

	The bits I caught in the paragraph were:

	To open, push down while turning cap.  [Don't copy any portion of
the audio or visual works in this film, or we won't be your friends
anymore.]  Keep out of reach of children.  This bag not a toy.

	I was graciously invited to attend the company screening of Tin Toy
at Pixar's headquarters.  It was a very nice affair, with plenty of junk
food, and a film copy of Tin Toy which people were invited to cut bits off
of and take home to use as bookmarks.  I met John Lasseter (sp?) and William
Reeves, who are exceedingly nice people, as well as some familiar faces.

	They also opened up their animation work room, which has, among
other things, Evans and Sutherland vector displays, a 3-space graphics
"tablet" with six degrees of freedom, and a giant clay model of a baby's
head.

	Tin Toy was shown in the next building in a very nice screening
room.  The film loses a lot in translation to video, since it's rendered in
what I presume to be Panavision aspect ratio.  Also, a lot of image clarity
is lost.  However, it was said that the film may be making the rounds in
animation film festivals, so you may wish to keep an eye out for it.

>Other good works came from Leo Schwab (who reads and posts).  He should
>best tell what he did.
>
	Oh, all right.

	Basically, I told the tale of my run-in with Pixar.  I made an
agreement with myself that that was the last time I would tell that story,
largely because it's getting old, and serving little purpose other than to
annoy Pixar.

	I would, however, like to publicly thank Ed Catmull for allowing me
to show "The Dream Comes Alive" (my original spinoff of "Red's Dream") at
Hacker's.

	I also showed a bunch of other stuff, including "Half-Ass" (poor
man's tribute to Jim Blinn and dig at OS/2 all-in-one), "IronMan" (flying
logo for Mike Saenz's graphic novel, "Crash"), "Xam-Yot" (a waste of time;
nobody gets it), and a program under development called "Onion", a paint
program for cel animators.

	Also, the same evening/morning, I cooked up another animation called
"Anti-CBS", my response to CBS' slanderous report on the Hacker's
Conference.

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