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Readme for Rachel Raccoon Pictures
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These pictures are hand-drawn pictures of a cartoon character
named 'Rachel the Raccoon'.
Author: Leslie Dietz
Vegreville, Alberta, Canada.
These pictures are in overscanned hires-interlace (704x480) (my screen mode)
and are provided in 16-colour, 8-colour, and 4-colour so you can use them for
your Workbench backdrop pictures if you have Workbench 2.1 or 3.0 or if
you have Workbench 2 and use NickPrefs or Tapete to put a picture in
the background of your workbench screen. The colours are arranged so
that at least on Workbench 2 you will have standard looking titlebars
and menues.
They are styled after the 'Eric Schwartz' style of pictures, but the character of
Rachel is a totally original creation of mine.
I got my interest from watching Schwartz animations, and I am an avid collector of
Eric's work. One time at Darren's place , I saw his workbench backdrop picture that
was one of Eric's pictures that he had converted to a backdrop. liked it
immediately and started converting some of Eric's other pictures and scenes from his
animations. Many of the scenes were lo-res non-interlaced
pictures, so when converting them to hi-res interlaced pictures, I had
to 'fill in' a lot of the details. Anyways, after getting a lot of
experience converting a number of these, I wanted to do some of my own.
I lacked a character so Darren off-handedly suggested a raccoon.
Well here she is!
My first creation, 'Rachel_Raccoon' was made using Eric's picture
'AFitAmy' as a guide. My second picture, 'WaterRaccoon' is a totally
original creation.
My trademark is the little dragon logo in the corner of
my pictures (it is a stylized "D" for those who didn't notice.)
I use programs 'DPaint V' to do the drawing, and 'Imagine' and 'Real 3D' and
'Scenery Animator' to draw the clouds and waves (which were touched up
later of course). 'Art Department Pro' is often used for blending backgrounds
and color reduction. These were drawn on my stock Amiga 2000, but now
I use my A4000/040, so more are done up in the new AGA
graphic modes with more colours (128, 256, and HAM8).
The 8-colour and 4-colour conversions of these pictures and the colour
remapping were done by Darren Ewaniuk.
I am a member of the AmiCUE computer club and a participant in the AmiCUE
Multimedia and Animation SIG. AmiCUE stands for "Amiga Commodore Users
of Edmonton" and is the users group for Amiga owners in Edmonton, Alberta.
If you wish to contact me;
leslie@aec.env.gov.ab.ca
or contact Darren and he will pass the message
on to him. EMail addresses are:
ewaniu@amitrix.com (Internet)
darrene@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Usenet, if above fails)
Darren Ewaniuk @ Devil BBS 1:342/53 (Fidonet)
Author: Leslie Dietz
Rachel Raccoon Pictures:
Picture name # Colors Description
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AmiCUERachel 8,16,256 AmiCUE logo
(Black lines from Rachel have been removed making a softer image)
BikingRachel HAM8, 256, 16 Daring a friend to go down the mountain.
ComputerRac 16,256 Complaining of the slow Commodore liquidation process
FishRachel 8,16,128 Just Fishin'
GreyCupRachel 16 Cheering Canadian Football Champs
KarateRachel 16 Karate class
RachelRaccoon 4,8,16,HAM8 Mountain biking
PoolRachel 8,16,HAM8 Relaxing after a hard day
Rachel3View 16 A front, side and perspective view of Rachel with some
background info
RachelFootball 16,256 A little over enthusiasm in a friendly game of touch
football
RachelMascot 16,256 Accepting her win in AmiCUE's Mascot contest
RachelMonitor 16 Showing a use for an IBM monitor
RachelOnCheck 16,HAM8 Rollerblading
RachelRodeo 16,256 Celebrating the return of the Amiga through ESCOM and
for AMIJAM in Calgary
RachelSunny 256 For a T-shirt
RachelValley 16,256 Mountain Hiking Here
RachelTrail 256 Snowshoeing in the woods with cuuute furry critters.
RaftingRachel 256 Enjoying the sun after a swim in the lake
VolleyballRachel 16 Spiking a pooor volleyball
WalkerRachel 256 Poking fun at the new Amiga Walker :-)
WaterRac 4,8,16 At the lake
XMasRac92 4,8,16 Ski lodge at Xmas
XMasRac93 8,16,256 Trolling for interesting fish.
XmasRachel94 16,256 Santa's Driver
XmasRachel95 16,256 SnowballFight (16 color 704x580, 256 color 1024x768)
Other Pictures:
Baseball 256 Two mice playing baseball ( drawn for a mouse pad)
CompuDrake 256 Dragon trying to get his system on line.
Copyright:
These pictures are Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by Les Dietz,
but are freely distributable. A condition of distribution is that the picture
must be distributed UNMODIFIED (other than file type) and
must include this readme file.