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Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Keywords: How was he done?
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Date: 31 May 89 07:41:21 GMT
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In article <7724@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>[...]
>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
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>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
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>afraid of people stealing it or something.
>[...]
>
>Jon

No no no NO! 
 Max Headroom was animated using a ZX81 (you know, the Clive Sinclair thing
with Z80 CPU), because of it's tremendous graphic capabilities! (something
around 192x128??? monochrome).

Seriously: You can't do things like Max Headroom with anything smaller
than Pixar or Cray or such. But actually it wasn't done with computers...

	D. Aedal