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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: 3 Mar 90 22:38:58 GMT
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(I deleted quite a bit from the original, I hope you all can follow 
this)

In article <4223@qiclab.UUCP>, baer@qiclab.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes...

>In article <3255@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
>|In article <27317@cup.portal.com|, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes...
>||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.
> 
>A month to do a 10 - 15 Minute animation?!?  I assume you mean seconds.  If
>not, my hat's off to you.  Our first film (QWERTY Dancing) took about

For m her recent postings, I assumed that she has spent the time to 
really learn the tools that she uses, so that the process of making an 
animation doesn't depend on dealing with the tools, but concentrates on 
the artistic aspects. This would naturally cut down on the time needed.

>Lets face facts here, animation is HARD!  It takes a special breed of
>artist to make a complete animated piece that has a story, characters,
>a soundtrack, etc.  And, it often requires a team of artists, organized

You're telling me? My first animations were done on blank 35mm film, 
with pens and a magnifying glass. I haven't done any Amiga stuff yet, 
though, because I haven't had the time to assess which tools would be 
approipriate for my needs...

>really amazing.  But, I also prefer animations with real stories and
>characters.  Lou Wallace (who put together the AW Tape) said that they
>may do another tape with mainly longer story pieces.  I hope they give
>us enough time to finish our current film. :-)

I do think that the tape shows quite well the video capabilities of the 
Amiga. Even though I enjoyed less than half of the tape, I don't think 
that the other half was useless, just that it showed styles and such I 
didn't particularly care for. I am eagerly awaiting the next tape. 
(I'll probably get the first one as well).

>-- 
>    //    -Ken Baer.  Programmer/Animator, Hash Enterprises. 
>  \X/     Usenet: baer@qiclab.UUCP  or  PLink: KEN BAER
>	  "I want to be an ..... ARCH VILLIAN!!!" -- Petey Pate.
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