john@uwmacc.UUCP (John Jacobsen) (01/07/87)
Howdy folks!
Some people have come to me with requests for information about
using computers to produce animation. They were looking at using the
IBM PC and I told them that the Amiga was a hot graphics machine. It
sounded like they wanted to stick to something more 'standard', but when
I told them I'd seen some software that could do what they wanted on the
Amiga, they seemed interested. This software was a demonstration program
for a package called Aegis Animator, and it really blew my mind. Does
anyone know if there is a released version of this package, and how much
it costs? Also, what it can do.
Both I and these people I'm helping out would really appreciate
any information at all.
John E. Jacobsen
University of Wisconsin -- Madison Academic Computing Center
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[NSA food: terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, CIA, secret, decode,]dickow@ui3.UUCP (01/08/87)
>...Amiga, they seemed interested. This software was a demonstration program >for a package called Aegis Animator, and it really blew my mind. Does >anyone know if there is a released version of this package, and how much >it costs? Also, what it can do. > Both I and these people I'm helping out would really appreciate >any information at all. >John E. Jacobsen >University of Wisconsin -- Madison Academic Computing Center Animator has been around for some time. I am just figuring out how to really make it put on a show. It is sold now for under $100.00 combined with a very nice 32 color drawing/painting program. Animator is also available as an upgrade for anyone who purchased the separate Images program. There are perhaps even better animation packages at very reasonable costs. Check out Deluxe Video Construction Set ($65). Also, for a very professional animation system, see the article in the January 1987 issue of AMIGA WORLD on the CALIGARI system (Octree Software is at 1501 Broadway, Suite 1800, New York, NY 10036). To see what these animation packages can do, try to dig up a copy of Amiga meets Atari... it is a hilarious little program from NMexico. The Amiga makes the IBM look very sick indeed when it comes to graphics. A colleague of mine saw my Amiga a few weeks ago and went out to look int EGA cards and such in order to make his PC "sort of" do a LITTLE of what the Amiga can do, and it would have cost him $600...almost as much as the whole Amiga system. And that doesn't include the cost of his new monitor! Oh well, how will we ever convince the world?... Robert Dickow, University of Idaho School of Music ...egg-id!ui3!dickow