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From: odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Summary: Amiga
Keywords: How was he done?
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Date: 30 May 89 05:34:36 GMT
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In article <688@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
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>I was wandering: How was Max Headroom animated? It looks an awful like computer
>animation, but I heard somewhere that he was created using standard animation
>techniques? 

All I know for sure about the animation techniques used for Max is that they
used a Commodore Amiga.  I was reading an article about how the Amiga was being
used and Max Headroom was one of them.  It also stated that although they did
use an Amiga they would not show the author the technique.  I guess they were
afraid of people stealing it or something.

My best guess would be shooting some frames of a person with expressions, etc.
and then "computerizing" them and have a tweening program make the frames in
between.  Since the Amiga can handle video so well, this would not be too
difficult to do but this is all speculation.

Jon
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