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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
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- Subject: Re: Professional animation, please help
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:28:49 GMT
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- uljff3@stenar.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak) wrote:
-
-
- >Hi:
-
- >My friend wants to make professional animations on Amiga and outputs them on
- >professional BETA format. Can somebody suggest him, what he needs for that?
- >How much ram? He is a cartoon animator mostly. Does he need a fast processor
- >(060) or is graphics card a necessity? Is there any other piece of exupement
- >apart from amiga and the usual stuff he needs? Some special hardware for
- >recording pro animations to beta?
-
- >Thank you in behalf of my friend for your kind answers
-
- >Jernej
-
- Hi Jerney,
- I am the owner of Image Magic Ltd, in London. We do a lot of Graphics
- and Animation work. We do a lot of "Cartoon" work (most commercials).
-
- We use different techinques at different times. It hard to pinpoint
- one solution as something else might be better in another situation.
-
- We use DP V (yes an old favorite), Disney Animator, Photogenics, Image
- master, Art Dept, TV Paint, and very recently Image FX.
-
- Most Key Animators (those that draw the key frames) like to draw on
- Paper. So we scan these into the Amigas using an Epson GT-8500
- Scanner. Since this takes a long time we get Image FX (which is
- supposed to support the scanner through the SCSI interface, but alas
- we have not been able to get this to work).
- The junior animator do the teweens (in betweens) on the Amiga in
- either DP V or Disney Animator.
-
- These are then coloured in on DP V or Image FX into 266 colours. (Anim
- 5). We then convert these to Anim 7 or 8 for playback. Using Amiga
- 4000/40 and 32 Mb RAM gives us enough for 1 scene (HD playback with
- biganim not work realabily for proffesional use). We use GVP G-Lock to
- over lay 256 colour image onto a 24 bit image (produced on another
- Amiga with 24bit card. Encoded to SVHS.) This allows us to have static
- 24 bit backgrounds and playback realtime with 256 colours for the
- foreground. The results are stunning and would never tell that we use
- 256 colours. GVP G-Lock also has componet output and thus goes
- straight into a beta deck.
-
- We are however looking to go full digital non-linear and may be
- purchasing Broadcaster Elite (which also has component output).
-
- One thing that we do do at the moment is if we need true 24 bit output
- we dump to an Exabyte 8mm drive in Abacus format (using Art Dept Pro).
- Then dump to Beta from an Abecus.
-
-
- Hope this helps...
-
-