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- From: mmcalees@cs16.UVic.CA (Michael McAleese (One of 'Those Dudes'))
- Subject: Re: Amiga+Toaster used to create "Babylon 5" TV show
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.214123.14506@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: The Forgotten Legions of... uhh... umm...
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 21:41:23 GMT
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- In article <3114@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
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- >An Amiga application making the big time: The computer graphics for the
- >upcoming TV show "Babylon 5" is being done on an Amiga with Video Toaster.
- >(This science fiction show will be going to syndication this winter, and
- >probably will compete head-to-head with the Star Trek spin-off "Deep Space
- >9".) All the space ships and the space station are rendered in LightWave 3-D.
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- For anyone interested you can find info on Babylon-5 at ftp@coe.montana.edu
- in /ftp/pub/TV/Guide/babylon-5, including the FAQ and gifs of the graphics
- generated by Lightwave 3D (though you have to re-scale them to 768x482 from
- the bastardized IBM dimensions...)
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- * mmcalees@csr.uvic.ca (Michael McAleese) : I speak only for me... *
- "Man can believe the impossible, but never the improbable." - Oscar Wilde
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