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From: markley@celece.ucsd.edu (Mike Markley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Keywords: How was he done?
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Date: 30 May 89 20:37:47 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? 

I believe that they actually used a finite element analysis
program to generate Max Headroom.  They digitized the image
of the actor that played Edison Carter and then used a
quantization routine to generate a geometric representation and
then analyzed that information.

Mike Markley
University of California, San Diego
markley@celece.ucsd.edu
markley@kubrick.ucsd.edu