portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (02/05/90)
AmigaWorld has recently put out a special Video and Animation issue.
I think they did a very good job. For anybody who would like a
comprehensive look at the products and support for video on the Amiga,
as well as a primer on video, animation and the Amiga, this issue
seems to be perfect. It's probably the best issue they've ever
produced.
Here's a list of the table of contents:
page title
6 Chief Concerns (Editor's column)
8 Power and Price: Amiga vs. Mac and IBM
10 Glossary of Common Animation and Video Terms
16 Setting Up Shop: The Amiga-Based Studio
22 Powerful Persuasion
using Amigas for presentations
26 Buyer's Guide to Amiga Animation/Video Products
42 Cutting the Red Tape
guide to videotape formats + select buyer's
guide for VCR's and camcorders
48 Gang of Four
reviews/comparisons of DPaint III,
DigiPaint 3, Photon Paint 2.0 and Deluxe
PhotoLab
54 Who's in Sync?
comparisons of 10 Amiga genlocks, including
vectorscope and waveform monitor pictures
62 Say it With Style
overview of 8 video-titling programs
68 Play it Together, Sam!
six programs to sync sound and music with
video/animation
76 Something for Nothing
15 public domain programs for
graphics/animation/video
82 How to Make a Fish Sneeze
12-step DPaint III tutorial
90 Putting a Shine on "Silver" (by Louis Markoya)
how to do special effects using Turbo Silver
and Sculpt-Animate 4D
96 Fine Art in Motion
Animation in Photon Paint's HAM Mode, from a
Disney Studios animator
100 LIVE! Performance
Using a LIVE! digitizer with other software
and hardware for special effects
106 2-D or not 2-D...A Good Question!
software to convert 2-D drawings to 3-D
objects for rendering in 3-D programs
112 Global Operations
Image Processing on the Amiga
116 Put a Trace on It!
Using a genlock or digitizer to produce
animation via rotoscoping
120 Help Frames
Answers to frequently-asked questions about
video and animation
124 Resources and References
Books, tapes, and on-disk reference materials
128 Company List
136 You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
the future of Amiga Animation and Video
AmigaWorld also has a special offer for a 45-minute video tape
compilation of Amiga-produced animation and video ($19.95), as well as
a 2-disk library set of software, color fonts, animbrushes, vector
objects, etc. Details for ordering are in the issue, though if others
want that information I'll email or post.
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__ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
\/ portuesi@sgi.com Entry Systems Division -- Engineering
"Why you? Because you're Electro-Cop, the best there is."stefan@hercule.cs.concordia.ca (BUCHHOLZ) (02/06/90)
Amigaworld's animation issue looks like a comic book from the outside. It is also sexist, second-class crass. Stefy LePew
brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested) (02/06/90)
In article <1840@clyde.concordia.ca>, stefan@hercule.cs.concordia.ca (BUCHHOLZ) writes: > > > Amigaworld's animation issue looks like a comic book from the outside. > It was intended to. > It is also sexist, second-class crass. > > Stefy LePew Oh, brother... It was "Jessica Rabbit" - like. It was a reference to one of the best animation projects ever... Get it, Stephanie? =====-----+-----=====-----+-----=====-----+-----=====-----+-----===== | BRANDON G. LOVESTED \ | / Software Entomologist \ | / Tektronix, Inc. --- - (*) - --- brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM =====-----+-----=====-----+-----=====-----+-----=====-----+-----=====
murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (02/06/90)
In article <1840@clyde.concordia.ca> stefan@hercule.CS.Concordia.CA (BUCHHOLZ) writes: >Amigaworld's animation issue looks like a comic book from the outside. >It is also sexist, second-class crass. > Stefy LePew Although my wife pointed out that the woman on the front is Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, I didn't believe her until seeing the movie again. Unfortunately, the colors are all wrong but the shape and the hair and the eyes and the lips and the dress (need I go on?) are drawn the way Jessica looks in the film. Sorry if you considered the cover sexist, but remember "She's not bad, she's only drawn that way." -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu Enjoying my Amiga 2000, but holding out for a real computer: The Amiga 3000!!