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Fred Fish's Product-Info | 1994-10-20 | 3.1 KB | 75 lines |
- .name
- ATF_Agility
- .type
- Animation
- .aminet-dir
- gfx/anim
- .short
- Animation of a jetliner being "buzzed".
- .description
- While attending my freshman year at the Columbus College of Art and
- Design, I came up with the idea for this animation, My father had
- recently purchased the Disney Animation studio, and, due to the nature
- of my animation idea, I chose the fast pageflipping Disney studio
- other than my usual workhorse, Moviesetter, which,from the nature of
- its animation system and Hardware/software limitations, can only do
- about 8-10 frames per second.
-
- ATF Agility was fully animated, with many more drawings per second
- than one of my Moviesetter works, which blits still and animated
- brushes around the screen. Disney worked wonderfully. Its onion skin
- feature greatly speeded up production. Disney also promises
- frame-synched sound, and timing and pallete changes in mid-animation,
- just like Moviesetter. All those features work beautifully, if you're
- willing to learn the language of the slightly-esoteric exposure sheet
- module, But these features are only available when you use Disney's
- proprietary CFAST animation file format. No biggie, I thought, I'm
- used to that (Moviesetter's proprietary too), and I would get a lot of
- benefits that a garden variety ANIM cant do. I colored the Animation
- in Disney's Ink'n'Paint module, which could use a LOT more capability,
- so I could keep with the beautiful, clever CFAST format, Right? HAH!!
-
- The final CFAST file saved out at 880K for a 22 second, 15 fps,
- 8-color animation - Just slightly bigger than a disk. because I had no
- Hard drive, I compressed the file and wrote a script to decompress
- upon running. Hardly a good solution; the overhead caused it to
- require 2.5 megs to run properly from a floppy, or 1.5 and an ASSIGN
- command to run from a hard drive. This was November of 1990. The
- situation didn't change for a while.
-
- June 1991. I purchased Progressive Peripherals' Animation Station,
- Which promised some of the abilites of the Disney program using
- standard ANIMs I resaved the CFAST file as an ANIM-5. 432k - Quite an
- improvement over 880k, Cfast files are just plain huge. Animation
- Station and its Animplayer allow Pallete changes during an animation,
- Timing changes for holds on frames without adding duplicate frames,
- and digitised sound synching via a script file that works exactly like
- a Sculpt/Movie sound script.
-
- It has its share of limitations and problems, (My Animation Station
- seems to know the GURU personally) but it works, The New ATF Agility
- runs nearly identically to the original version. Takes up only a bit
- more than half a disk including player program. only requires 1-meg,
- and can run from any directory. You can even load it into Dpaint and
- check it out, but youll probably lose the fringe benefits.
- .version
- ?.?
- .author
- Eric Schwartz
- .requirements
- Requires 1 Mb of memory or more.
- .reference
- .distribution
- Copyrighted but Freely Distributable
- .address
- E.S. Productions
- P.O. Box 292684
- Kettering. OH 45429-0684
- U.S.A.
- .docs
- ATF_Agility.readme
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@amigalib.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from aminet (wuarchive.wustl.edu).
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