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- * HOTAIR BALLOONS AND FRIEND *
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- Animation by Marvin Landis,OJS799 (PeopleLink)
- 72477,1575 (Compuserve)
- MCSMAL@NMSUVM1 (BITNET)
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- This is the first Animator video I have completed to a point where I felt
- it was worth sharing with others. I have started quite a few other videos
- with Animator and Deluxe Video, but somehow none ever get finished.
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- This video is a result of another project I am currently working on with my
- mother. My mom is making a quilt with approximately 25 hot air balloons on
- it. Using Deluxe Paint I have been drawing many of my favorite hot air
- balloons. I then hacked up a public domain version of an IFF show utility
- to output a counted cross-stitch pattern of each balloon to my C.Itoh
- printer. For those of you unfamiliar with counted cross-stitch, it is
- a type of needlework in which a rectangular piece of cloth is divided
- into many small squares (my mom is using material that has 14 squares to
- the inch). Using various colors of thread, an X is cross-stitched into each
- of the squares. The resulting picture is essentially a lo-res bitmap image,
- so why not design the balloons on an Amiga? The counted cross-stitched
- pictures are turning out very well, and I think from some of the balloons
- you can see in this video, her quilt is going to be very colorful. (I
- really see possibilities with this using Hold-and-Modify pictures!)
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- Anyway, I wanted an interesting way to show off some of the balloons, so
- this video is the result. I have not taped it yet, but I am anxious to
- see what the output looks like on my VCR. And of course, this video might
- lend itself well to a Genlock and some live background video. I would be
- very interested in any any ideas or comments anyone has. There are several
- ways to contact me with e-mail, and if those fail, my address is also
- listed below.
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- BEFORE YOU TRY AND RUN THE VIDEO, BE SURE THAT THE FILE HOTAIR.SCR HAS BEEN
- RENAMED TO HOTAIR.SCRIPT, AND THE FILE CALLED BUTTER.WIN HAS BEEN RENAMED
- BUTTERFLY.WIN. THE EXECUTE.ME FILE WILL DO THESE RENAMES FOR YOU. USE THE
- PUBLIC DOMAIN PROGRAM CALLED ANIPLAYER TO VIEW THIS VIDEO IF YOU DO NOT
- OWN ANIMATOR.
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- Feel free to post this anywhere, please just leave all of the files,
- including this one, in the archive.
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- Marvin Landis
- 904 Sumner Place
- Las Cruces, NM 88001
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