acota@pro-realm.cts.com (Arnold Cota) (09/23/90)
I finally got my expansion memory. Now I am up to 1.5 meg (it is an improvement). I would like some suggestions on amination programs. I am interested in creating some cartoonish scenes... Arn UUCP: crash!pro-realm!acota ARPA: crash!pro-realm!acota@nosc.mil INET: acota@pro-realm.cts.com
danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) (09/24/90)
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I suggest DeluxePaint III by Electronic Arts
and MovieSetter by golddisk, for your type of animations.
Movie setter offers great sound sequencing to the Animation, while
DPaint III does not allow any sound interaction.
Let me ask, does anyone know a good way to get sychronized sound in
with a standard animation created with Sculpt4d, or DeluxePaint? I'd like to
have a pair of animated lips look like they are saying some digitized sound in
a presentation.
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U.S.Mail: 509 StonyBrook Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08807a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant) (09/24/90)
> acota@pro-realm.cts.com writes: > > Msg-ID: <4603@crash.cts.com> > Posted: 23 Sep 90 08:56:05 GMT > > Person: Arnold Cota > > I finally got my expansion memory. Now I am up to 1.5 meg (it is an > improvement). I would like some suggestions on amination programs. I am > interested in creating some cartoonish scenes... > > Arn > > UUCP: crash!pro-realm!acota > ARPA: crash!pro-realm!acota@nosc.mil > INET: acota@pro-realm.cts.com The only program I can recommend for this type of work is Disney's Animation Studio. If you've ever done any hand-drawn animation (you know, with pencils; what are pencils, you ask? Well...) you will feel right at home (except for the fact that you'll be drawing with a brick instead of a pencil (there's that word again! Will someone tell me what a pencal is, please? No no, I said penCIL. Oh. Well what is it? Never mind. It's too hard to explain) -Ron Tarrant a976@Mindlink.UUCP
martijn@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Reinalda M.) (09/24/90)
The Director is very capable of combining animation and samples.
jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott) (09/24/90)
In article <4614@crash.cts.com> danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from acota@pro-realm.cts.com > > I suggest DeluxePaint III by Electronic Arts >and MovieSetter by golddisk, for your type of animations. > Movie setter offers great sound sequencing to the Animation, while >DPaint III does not allow any sound interaction. > > Let me ask, does anyone know a good way to get sychronized sound in >with a standard animation created with Sculpt4d, or DeluxePaint? I'd like to >have a pair of animated lips look like they are saying some digitized sound in >a presentation. Yes, I suggest Deluxe Video III as probably the EASIEST way to do this. Other programs like the Director can do this too, but can take longer to do. With Deluxe Video, you setup an animation track and a sound track (and optionally other types of tracks like picture display, SMUS music playing, etc). Each track is essentially a time line. You decide when an animation starts playing, and sound track lets you decide when to start a sound playing. These tracks are in parallel, so it is easy to line things up so that they are synced. I use DPaint III for most of my quick-and-dirty animation work, and Deluxe Video III is very easy to use. I am not claiming that it is the most powerful thing since the Silicon Graphics machine, but it does work well. Other programs that I have done this with are Lights, Camera , Action (not one of my favorites), the Director, and, of course, AmigaDOS (we do multi- task around here). > ProLine: danb20@pro-graphics *************************** > UUCP: ...crash!pro-graphics!danb20 * Dan Bachmann * >ARPA/DDN: pro-graphics!danb20@nosc.mil * Raritan Valley College * >Internet: danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com *************************** >U.S.Mail: 509 StonyBrook Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 -- John E. Ramspott
cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) (09/25/90)
danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) writes:
< In-Reply-To: message from acota@pro-realm.cts.com
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< I suggest DeluxePaint III by Electronic Arts
< and MovieSetter by golddisk, for your type of animations.
< Movie setter offers great sound sequencing to the Animation, while
< DPaint III does not allow any sound interaction.
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< Let me ask, does anyone know a good way to get sychronized sound in
< with a standard animation created with Sculpt4d, or DeluxePaint? I'd
< like to have a pair of animated lips look like they are saying some
< digitized sound in a presentation.
The problem with this is that there is nostandard for synchronizing
sound to animations (yet?). Animation Station, AniMagic, MovieSetter,
and (I believe) the Animation: series all provide this capability to
varying degrees, but none are compatible with the others (as far as I
have been able to find out).
This means that you will need to use the player program provided with
whichever animator you use in order to get the benefits of sounds.
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I would suggest that you try DeluxePaint III and Disney's The Animation
Studio. If you are really into old fashioned animation practices, I would
suggest the Disney program as it designed with the traditional animator in
mind. (meaning, you draw each and every frame manually). DpaintIII allows
you to switch resolutions and to give your brushes motion trajectories (can't
really call them paths). DpaintIII is very flexable and affords you both
impressive animation capabilities along with useable output to video if you
need it. I don't know what resolutions The Animation Studio runs under but
I've been told it is Lo-res only.
Another reasonable program is MovieSetter. It allows you to have sound bytes
added to your animations and all played back in a runtime module via thier
movie program.
I use DpaintIII almost exclusivly for all my 2D animation chores. If you are
producing animations for clients, I would suggest purchasing a few additional
animation tools. There are several good tools from Hash and there are even
some reasonable tools in the PD that allow you to split, combine and make
anims from/to IFF images.
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Raven Enterprises 25 Raven Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854 mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) (09/25/90)
Don't forget the new animation package from Disney.... I think it's called Disney Animation studio.... although I think that DPIII is a good choice also...
DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) (09/27/90)
I am seriously looking at Deluxe Video III to help me in a project I"m
working on. If someone familiar with it could help me with this. This is
what I need to do. What hard/soft ware will enable me to do it:
Make a Video Tape of
Live Action Pre-Recorded on a CamCorder overlayed with
Amiga generated (Deluxe Paint III probably) static graphics
Intermixed with 3d animation between scenes of live action.
All with a MIDI-synched soundtrack!
If the Amiga can do this.... Commodore my check is in the mail.
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> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > > Msg-ID: <90269.144631DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> > Posted: 26 Sep 90 18:46:31 GMT > > Org. : Penn State University > Person: Doug Bischoff > > > I am seriously looking at Deluxe Video III to help me in a project I"m > working on. If someone familiar with it could help me with this. This is > what I need to do. What hard/soft ware will enable me to do it: > > Make a Video Tape of > Live Action Pre-Recorded on a CamCorder overlayed with > Amiga generated (Deluxe Paint III probably) static graphics > Intermixed with 3d animation between scenes of live action. > All with a MIDI-synched soundtrack! > > If the Amiga can do this.... Commodore my check is in the mail. > > > /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ > | -Doug Bischoff- | *** *** ====--\ | "Beggars can't | > | -DEB110 @ PSUVM- | * *** * ==|<>\___ | be users. Just | > | -The Black Ring- | *** *** |______\ | give me the damn | > | --- "Wheels" --- | *** O O | disk, willya?" | > | Corwyn Blakwolfe | T.R.I. ------------- | -"Grendel" Roe | > \--------------------------------------------------------------------- / Doug, Yes, you can do all this with an Amiga. There is one other thing you will need to pull this off and that's a Genlock. Commodore makes one for the A2000 which goes for about $450.00 (Canadian); I guess that would be somewhat less in the U.S. There are other Genlocks available, of course. You can spend as little as $150.00 (not recommended) or as much as a few thousand. -Ron Tarrant a976@Mindlink.UUCP
ewhac@well.sf.ca.us (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (09/27/90)
In article <4633@crash.cts.com> bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) writes: >I don't know what resolutions The Animation Studio runs under but >I've been told it is Lo-res only. > Nope. Go to the Preferences menu and select "Screen Format..." Pick a res, any res... It does overscanning, too. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "EH-wack") "Because you never know who might want to sit in your lap."