Radagast@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) (12/09/90)
Let's try to keep this to one conference, okay? >Wrong! The Video Toaster from NewTek does animation. I saw >forty minutes of INCREDIBLE demonstration of a Toaster last >night. Included was the animation of a ship moving from >a distant perspective to a close perspective. It was >*really* nice compared to the amount of work I've watched >friends put into VideoScape 3D and Promotion and a handful >of other animation packages. The Video Toaster does not do animation. The recording device for the animation you undoubtably saw is a single frame recorder. Being able to produce one frame at a time for animation is not what I consider "doing animation." -Sullivan_-_Segall (a.k.a. Radagast) _______________________________________________________________ /V\ E-Credibility: (n -- ME) The unguaranteed likelyhood that ' the electronic mail you are reading is genuine rather than someone's made up crap. _______________________________________________________________ Mail to: ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!radagast or radagast@cup.portal.com
jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) (12/10/90)
Have you seen the Toaster? I did! In the demo, the first frame was set with a spaceship set in a distant perspective. The fifteen frame was then set at a mid perspective with a slight banking. The thirtieth frame was set with the ship at a close perspective with a hard banking. Then, with a click of a gadget, the Toaster generated the other twenty-eight frames and showed one second of animation. It was very easy compared to using Promotion and VideoScape 3D. Perhaps you ought to try out the equipment before you tell me I'm wrong when I am NOT. -- John M. Adams --**-- Professional Student on the seven-year plan! /// Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu -or- vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu /// "We'll always be together, together in electric dreams" Moroder & Oakey \\V// Sysop of The Beachside. FIDOnet 1:3612/557. 904-492-2305 (Florida) \X/