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From: joe@bryans.scc.com
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Date: 31 May 89 02:12:19 GMT
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>Stuard Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) writes:
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>runs orders of magnitude faster.  This makes VideoScape really the only
>choice for doing animations of any length.

I disagree with your above comment. While Videoscape may be a good animation
and rendering package, I find it's interface difficult to use. Sculpt-Animate
3D (&4D) have great user interfaces, but are also slow and not completely
bug-free. I prefer using Turbo Silver V3.0SV. The editor is in HIRES with
user definable colors (to reduce amount of flicker), relativly bug free,
renders full ray-traced images in an average of about 1 hour (for relatively
complex scenes. Add another half hour for full anti-aliased & glass/mirror
images. [on a stock A500 w/ 1 meg of RAM]), and has the ability to produce
scenes using a different rendering process other than ray-tracing to cut down
rendering times by aproximately 50%. (This mode does not allow reflective
surfaces though). 

I would say Turbo Silver is another good alternative for doing animations of
any length. (Long the animation more memory and storage you'll need no matter
what software package you use). There are other viable packages for animation
out there, such as Moviesetter, Fantavision, Deluxe Paint III, and Photon 
Paint II, and not to forget Photon Cell Animator. I think the market is full,
but could use improvements in the animation field..

Joe Kuzma
(joe@bryans.scc.com)