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From: dak@pro-graphics.cts.com (DAK Productions)
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Subject: Re-post Animation Journeyman
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Date: 9 Mar 90 07:56:19 GMT
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This is a re-post of a previous message that I don't think made it here
earlier. Apologies to those concerned if it already DID make it up;

Here is some more info from the article I mentioned in an earlier post....

>From February 1990 VideoSystems, by Steven Cummings, RGB Computer & Video
Creation, Fla.-

"....On the horizon is a 3-D charactor animation package, which, by any
standard, must be called revolutionary. Called Animation Journeyman, it was
designed to create animated sequences of organic objects, using organic
motion. The 3-D segments that make up a charactor are not constructed of
triangles or squares as are most 3-D objects. Instead they are made up of
topological contours....bump-texture mapping and image mapping are..projected
onto the object..eliminat(ing) texture distortion associated with...wrapping
flat-texture planes onto complex forms. Add.. paint freehand on a 3-D
object...."

The article goes on to describe the motion method which is pretty niffty also.
BUT the big questions are; when and how much$?
If anyone else has more info please let us know!!

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