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- From: jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
- Subject: Re: Space Ranger?????
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 15:41:38 -0600
- Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
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- References: <1992Dec30.000344.28525@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.000344.28525@netcom.com> you write:
- [...]
- >I know the individual who did the graphic work for Space Rangers. I'm not
- >sure what he used in terms of available Amiga graphic packages but creating
- >great level of SFX can certainly be done on the Amiga and at a far lower
- >price tag than "more poweerful and complex workstations". One prime example
- >of this will be Babylon 5 where Video Toasters are put to darn good use. I
- >know the guy who worked on Space Rangers has a Toaster himself but perhaps
- >not the same level of "toys" as Foundation Imaging who does Babylon 5. Of
- >course, the artist also has something to do with it and Ron Thorton of FI
- >is one mean artist! If I had a fraction of his talents...
- >
- >Having not seen Space Rangers yet, I can't comment but I felt I did have to
- >follow up. The Amiga is certainly capable of high level effects provided
- >the artists knows how to produce them.
-
- I regret saying that the way I did. What I meant, is that alot
- of Amiga computer animation I've seen seems have put in less
- effort than a graphics workstation. This is painfully obvious in
- something like THE MIND'S EYE video, whomever was using the Amiga
- didn't work hard enough on the 3D Depth, it looks far too flat
- than most of the other images. I have seen some better videos of
- Amigas which do this better, but in my experience, the work I've
- seen hasn't been able to defeat this problem.
-
- So, I shouldn't have said that Amiga's are worse that creating
- SFX, but rather the work I've seen isn't quite as good as the
- bulk of computer animation on workstations?
-
- Does anyone know whey they used for the animation on the pilot of
- DS9? It was quite good, it must have taken alot of $$$ for all
- the SFX in that one, which is quite surprising to me.
-
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