tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (03/07/91)
Our Michiana Users Group Meeting was especially exciting this month. Not only did our local dealer (Tenex) show us the Video Toaster, but one member actually (by coincidence) brought in a sample of what people in the industry are doing with the Toaster. In this case it was Todd Rundgren's new music video by the name of "Change Myself" from his new album "2nd Wind". A club member who happens to leave a 6 hour tape on VH1 caught it. It looks mighty good even to those of us who are not exactly Todd Rundgren fans. Hard to imagine but there were guys present too young to remeber Todd! There was a CompuServe (TM) posting about it, too. I won't wuote it all, but it seems that Allen Hastings was technical consultant for Todd on this. Who better? But one part is worth quoting -- "Todd estimates that the Toaster accomplished what would have taken 4 to 5 months and over $250,000 with conventional 3D equipment." . . . "The video consists of well over 7,000 frames rendered . . . at a resolution of 1536 x 960 in 16.8 million possible colors. The entire video was created in less than 5 weeks including modelling and rendering time. Multiple Toaster-equipped Amiga 2500 systems were used to accelerate the rendering to meet the ambitious production schedule." Well, I hope those of you who are interested in such things get a chance to see it. -- Travis -- -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---