Magnetic Pages Article | 1993-07-22 | 3KB | 18 lines
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[6";32;41m Animations
[0m& Going by the presentation and docs&of most of the Amiga animations I've&seen I think it's safe to say that&animators are a different breed&compared to the more usual&recreational computer user. Coding it&would seem is not for them. A&startup-sequence seems about as far as&they can be bothered going and I&suspect that's only because they have&to. Even making icons seems to defeat&a good many of them which seems#strange for the graphically minded.& This is not the animator's fault of&course as they shouldn't need to&struggle just to get their works up&and running. But there doesn't seem to&be any easy way to string together an&animation with sound effects. View by&Cryogenic is a good PD anim and sound&viewer and their AnimBuild is&excellent for putting silent anims&together but there doesn't seem to be&any good PD software for putting a&full animation with sound effects&together. Would this be so hard to&make? Surely all that's needed is a&means of making a list of the pictures&and samples and their pause times&(none of this display the same picture&a dozen times please) in the sequence&they are to be used with software&compiling them into an animation using&a suitable compression method. Is this&too hard to program or something? Come&on you coders, help these guys out.&There's too much talent here for them&to be wasting their time with buggy or&inefficient software that ends up&creating small animations spread over&two disks and that will only run in
two megs or so.
Come on you coders, help
these guys out.
[23m& And speaking of memory efficiency,&congratulations to Tony Helm of Carl&Inc. for finding a way around the&problem and creating a new genre in&the process. They're great. More
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