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* GYMNAST *
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Copyright 1988 by Marvin Landis
This animation was created with Sculpt-Animate 3D and finally rendered
in photo mode with Sculpt-Animate 4D. It is a 230 frame animation that
that requires a minimum 1 MB Amiga.
The Gymnast has a long history. It was the project I decided to work on
after the BoingThrows animation. The original version of this anim
had 500 frames and ran at 30 frames / second. You may have seen the
wireframe version of the anim on PeopleLink or on Byte by Byte's Demo
tape. However the rendering time on my stock B2000 was over 9 hours a
frame if I wanted photo mode with shadows. Needless to say, I did not
even want to attempt this on my machine, and several owners of more
powerful machines (a 68020 and a 68030) offered to render it, but even
those attempts failed to produce an animation (500 frames still takes
a long time no matter what machine you use).
So I reduced the length of the animation to 230 frames, and now it runs
at 15 frames / second. I also decided to try a new dismount since
many people commented the wireframe dismount did not look humanly
possible (I can't believe how hard it is for me to convince people
that Amiguy is NOT human :-). And with the new faster rendering in
Sculpt-Animate 4D this entire animation was finally rendered entirely
on my machine at just about 1 hour and 15 minutes a frame. Its
obviously not as smooth as the wireframe, but sufficient for a RAM
animation.
One last note, this animation does include sound, however I have never
professed to being an audio expert (actually I would say I'm not even
a novice). I included the sounds for fun, if you don't like my creaky
high bar you have the option of turning down the volume or replacing the
sounds with ones of your own choosing. All of the audio files are
included on this disk, so you should be able to synch your own digitized
sounds to the animation.
Feel free to pass this disk on to other proud Amiga owners, but please
leave all of the files, including this one on the disk.
Marvin Landis
904 Sumner Place
Las Cruces, NM 88001
MLANDIS (PeopleLink)
MCSMAL@NMSUVM1 (BITNET)