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From: bam@rudedog.sgi.com (Brian McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Keywords: How was he done?
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Date: 30 May 89 17:59:25 GMT
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In article <7724@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>In article <688@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>>
>>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
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I don't know much more, but I do know that the first season (and the pilot)
used non-Amiga's (what were they??) and they decided to switch to Amiga's
to save money. The second season's graphics were not quite as good but
still reasonable.  The network (23 :-) canceled it half way thru the second 
season.  Ratings, they said...


			- brian
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