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From: ncc@sys.uea.ac.uk (N.C. Cox CMP Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Summary: Max was real
Keywords: How was he done?
Message-ID: <575@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 30 May 89 10:14:29 GMT
References: <688@corpane.UUCP>
Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK
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In article <688@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> 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 techniques? 
> 

Max Headroom was not animated at all. He was the actor who played the actual TV
repoter whom Max was a copy of. The CG 'look' was created by special make-up
help with the famous 'scratch video' techniques.

On an aside, the animation company that created the rotating vector background
was the same that produced the "Accidents Will Happen" video for Elvis 
Costello. (What a mine of useless trivia I am :-)

Neil Cox
UEA Norwich
U.K.