glmwc@iceman.jcu.oz (Matthew W Crowd) (11/20/90)
I'm looking for an Animation program for my MacII. My requirements are that it should be able to do 60 frames/sec animation and realtime scaling with simultaneous sound. Does anyone have any suggestions? Matthew Crowd
rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) (11/21/90)
In article <1281@iceman.jcu.oz> glmwc@iceman.jcu.oz (Matthew W Crowd) writes: >I'm looking for an Animation program for my MacII. >My requirements are that it should be able to do >60 frames/sec animation and realtime scaling with >simultaneous sound. Does anyone have any suggestions? Buy another computer. The people who wrote The Disney Animation Studio tried a port to the Mac, and could only get 2 frames/sec. Also note, that they are damn good programers, and if they can't do it, I duobt anyone else can. BTW, why do you need 60 fps? Standard film is 24 (and normally only 12 or 8 (japaneese)) and television used 30 fps. > >Matthew Crowd Rick Blewitt rblewitt@ucsd
gee@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee) (11/21/90)
In article <1281@iceman.jcu.oz> glmwc@iceman.jcu.oz (Matthew W Crowd) writes: >I'm looking for an Animation program for my MacII. >My requirements are that it should be able to do >60 frames/sec animation and realtime scaling with >simultaneous sound. Does anyone have any suggestions? > >Matthew Crowd Another computer? More seriously, for a machine that is supposed to have such wonderful graphics abilities, the Mac is dreadfully lacking in terms of graphics speed. Every try to write an animation program on a machine without double buffering? I want my SGI Iris back! A while ago, the author of Solarian posted an article on implementing double buffering on Macs in assembler. Does anyone have this article around? I (foolishly) didn't save it, and I've run into a wall trying to implement some smooth animation routines. BTW: you might want to check out MACWORLD, the June 1989 issue entitled "Film, Video, Animation", which contains a review of a number of animation programs. Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Gee | Aerospace Group | a man in search of a quote DCIEM, DND | Canada | gee@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------------