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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

3094.0. "S/W package for making animation?" by MIMS::SAMADI_M () Sat May 21 1994 00:25

    
    Does anyone know of a software package out there for 
    making animation? If you know please provide as much information as
    possible.
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
    Mike
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3094.1More detailBAHTAT::HILTONBeer...now there's a temporary solutionSun May 22 1994 21:331
    What platform do you wish to make animations on?
3094.2GLDOA::ROGERShard on the wind againMon May 23 1994 00:433
    See Wavefront (as in Jurassic Park). It runs only on HP or SGI.
    
    
3094.3though some say, "it's only resting" {twitch, twitch}NOTAPC::BURGESSMon May 23 1994 12:4810
re          <<< Note 3094.2 by GLDOA::ROGERS "hard on the wind again" >>>

>    See Wavefront (as in Jurassic Park). It runs only on HP or SGI.
    

	Right, and the Babylon 5 stuff was done mostly on Amigas (R.I.P.)    


	R

3094.4PC Based animation toolsAIMHI::RGAUTSCHIMon May 23 1994 13:374
    Try Autodesk's Animator Pro or 3D Studio for the PC.  
    
    Reese
    
3094.5MOTTLE::DECAROLISJeanneMon May 23 1994 13:5113
    Re: -1
    
    Animator Pro and 3D Studio are good choices for the PC,
    the designers in my group use both of those tools for
    their animations.
    
    Director, by Macromedia runs on the Mac.  Another good
    choice.
    
    There are a couple of notes conferences you can look into,
    XSTACY::PC_MULTIMEDIA and BGSDEV::MULTIMEDIA_SERVICES.
    
    Jeanne
3094.6GUIDUK::GOODHINDSleep is for mortals...Mon May 23 1994 17:1519
	For low-end animation on the Mac you can try AddMotion II - it's
	bundled free in Hypercard 2.2. Good enough for simple presentations
	or putting together short quicktime clips for transitions. Has
	soundmgr support, a path/timeline/cel editors and a fairly easy
	to use interface - the docs are pretty poor and the example code
	is skimpy, but you can get good effects fairly easily.

	Depending on what you want to do you could also need a raft of
	supporting products (and horsepower) - post-processing ("Apply this
	Photoshop filter to every frame of the movie"), scripting ("If you
	mousedown in this frame-range then go to this clip with a wipe
	transition"), rendering ("I need a wierd machine that looks like
	a cross between a toaster and a fish") ... multimedia hell is
	made of this. ;) Add in full-screen video capture w/genlock and
	you're talking large bucks.

	Larry

3094.7Using MS-DOS 6.2 or Window 3.xxMIMS::SAMADI_MMon May 23 1994 17:316
    
    Thanks for all the replies,
    
    The platform is either MS-DOS 6.2 or Window 3.01.
    
    Mike
3094.8PointersBAHTAT::HILTONBeer...now there's a temporary solutionMon May 23 1994 19:2718
    Hi Mike,
    
    For PC Multimedia animation etc check out:
    
    XSTACY::PC_MULTIMEDIA
    
    For ray tracing, morphing etc try:
    
    exocet::ray_tracing
    
    The ray tracing conf has pointers to many shareware versions of
    commercial software to try etc.
    
    
    Cheers,
    
    Greg
    
3094.9This topic is write-lockedSMURF::BLINNDream of gypsy wagons.Wed Jun 01 1994 21:214
        Topic write-locked, not relevant to the charter of this
        conference.  Replies by MAIL to the author.
        
        Tom