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- From: mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Currier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Babylon 5 and Amiga
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:46:28 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- I just thisafternoon saw a nice "special effects" magazine (had something
- to do with Cinema* in the title) and there was a rather large spread about
- the upcoming Babylon 5 and, particularly, the creation of the special
- effects for the show. I won't requote the magazine here (I couldn't do the
- pictures justice anyway) but some of the major points were... all of the
- spaceships and "outside" shots were done completely with the Video Toaster
- and an Amiga 2500. The entire special effects budget for the show was in
- the neighborhood of $250,000. The animators raved about the Toaster, it's
- power and flexibility and the fact that they got fantastic output (!) for
- such a small investment of time, effort, and money. Please correct me if I
- got something wrong.
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- Most of you Amiga enthusiasts already know Babylon 5 was an Amiga project
- so I won't go on about it. My point is this... If Commodore gets a single
- scrap of credit or press for this show sales of Amigas and Video Toasters
- are going to skyrocket. I don't do animation and I want one myself. Maybe
- Commodore should seriously consider blowing their annual ad budget for
- some serious commercial time during the premier of Babylon 5. Maybe they
- should lean on NewTek to finish the A4000 Toaster before next week. Comments?
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