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- From: corsa@shell.portal.com (Eric Richard Elliott)
- Subject: Re: Babylon 5 and Amiga
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:33:33 GMT
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- mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Currier) writes:
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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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- Actually, the special effects were done on 8 Amiga 2000 with 32 megs of
- RAM each and '040 processors, all networked with an IBM file server...
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- Watch for it to air around the 22nd or 23rd of February (syndicated...
- check local listings...)
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