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- Short: AW anim contest winner (1st 2500 frames)
- Type: gfx/anim
- Uploader: mark@westford.ccur.com
- Author: mark@westford.ccur.com
-
- This is approximately the first 2500 frames of my short film, "One
- Stormy Night with Fred Floaty". It is the tale of Fred, a small
- blow-up pool floaty toy, who has aspirations of escaping his dark and
- cramped home in a cut-rate travel agent window. It was done entirely
- in LightWave 2.0, took nearly 6 months to create and involved a solid
- 4 months of continuous rendering. The original motivation for the film
- was to show off some of the latest effects I had developed using
- LightWave which included a spectacular animated simulation of rain and
- a pretty darn good pool (IMHO). Render times on a 28MHz Zeus equipped
- 2000 averaged about 1 hour per frame (some took up to 2 hours and 40
- min.) The film took first place in Amiga World's 1992 animation
- contest and is available from them (along with 18 other top entries)
- on their "Amigamations" tape.
-
- The animation in this file has been shrunk down from 24bit 752x480 to
- 188x120 in 4bit grayscale so that a good sized chunk of the film (a
- "teaser") could be shown without consuming gobs of memory. The
- original files consumed well over 2.5GB. When playing this animation,
- make sure to limit playback speed to 30fps. The deltas are small
- enough that most anim players will start out at 60fps.
-
- Hardware used:
- Commodore Amiga 2000, Progressive Peripherals Zeus accelerator, NewTek
- Video Toaster, Epson 300C scanner
-
- Software used:
- LightWave 3D 2.0 and Toaster Paint from NewTek, Deluxe Paint IV from
- Electronic Arts, ADPro and MorphPlus from ASDG, Cinemorph from GVP,
- Pixel 3D from Axiom Software.
-
- Concept and Story by Mark Thompson and Denise Huxta Thompson
- Modeling, Rendering, and Animation by Mark Thompson
- Original Music by Dennis Turner
- Sound Effects and Production by Dennis Turner
- Video Production by Mark Thompson and Greg Green
-
- Copyright 1992 Mark Thompson
- All rights reserved
-