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From: milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Message-ID: <1394@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 16:22:00 GMT
References: <688@corpane.UUCP>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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From article <688@corpane.UUCP>, by sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks):
> I know this is a bit away from the mainstream technical topics of this
> newsgroup, but please indulge me :-)
> 
> 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

Max headroom isn't any kind of animation....it's a guy wearing a LOT of plastic
makeup.  They also do some tricks to the video like repeating frames or removing
frames to make it appear more jerky.

There isn't any real animation involved it all.


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