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From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: Was Faith in Amiga, now where's the artists?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 00:00:17 GMT
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In article <27317@cup.portal.com>, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes...

>Don't kid yourself.  There are MANY talented artists able to use the Amiga
>superbly.  I know more than a few.
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>Animation is worse.  It takes me an average of a month to do a 10 or 15-minute
>animation.  Here we have not only the time it takes to do the graphics, but all
>the scripting, storyline, debugging, animating, etc.  I think it was Amiga
>World that recently had an animation competition.  I seem to recall those which
>were accepted would receive $50 as compensation.  No we're looking at 25 cents
>an hour or less.
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Last night, our local group screened the AmigaWorld animation tape. Only 
about a quarter of the animations were worth the $50 compensations that 
were paid. I have seen enough color-cycled Mandelbrots and checkerboard 
background planes to last me a lifetime. However, some of the animations 
were truly gorgeous (the gopher comes to mind, but there were others). 
The range of styles was incredible, everything from pencil-type 
animations to fully rendered stuff. I would have preferred to see more 
than just the sketches that were done, but the limitations of most of 
the animators (meaning that the bits were probably all done in memory, 
without the benefit of single stepping hardware), I could live with 
this, especially as some were clearly labeled as demo reels. I disliked 
the number of repeating animations, as I personally find them boring. 
This part of the meeting was the most interesting (as most of the rest 
of it was taken up by a demonstrations of The Director(?), by a local 
artist who seems to be obsessed with the idea that an animated black cat 
tail can be a keyed window onto other video. Pretty dull.)

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