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- * GYMNAST *
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- Copyright 1988 by Marvin Landis
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- This animation was created with Sculpt-Animate 3D and finally rendered
- in photo mode with Sculpt-Animate 4D. It is a 230 frame animation that
- that requires a minimum 1 MB Amiga.
-
- The Gymnast has a long history. It was the project I decided to work on
- after the BoingThrows animation. The original version of this anim
- had 500 frames and ran at 30 frames / second. You may have seen the
- wireframe version of the anim on PeopleLink or on Byte by Byte's Demo
- tape. However the rendering time on my stock B2000 was over 9 hours a
- frame if I wanted photo mode with shadows. Needless to say, I did not
- even want to attempt this on my machine, and several owners of more
- powerful machines (a 68020 and a 68030) offered to render it, but even
- those attempts failed to produce an animation (500 frames still takes
- a long time no matter what machine you use).
-
- So I reduced the length of the animation to 230 frames, and now it runs
- at 15 frames / second. I also decided to try a new dismount since
- many people commented the wireframe dismount did not look humanly
- possible (I can't believe how hard it is for me to convince people
- that Amiguy is NOT human :-). And with the new faster rendering in
- Sculpt-Animate 4D this entire animation was finally rendered entirely
- on my machine at just about 1 hour and 15 minutes a frame. Its
- obviously not as smooth as the wireframe, but sufficient for a RAM
- animation.
-
- One last note, this animation does include sound, however I have never
- professed to being an audio expert (actually I would say I'm not even
- a novice). I included the sounds for fun, if you don't like my creaky
- high bar you have the option of turning down the volume or replacing the
- sounds with ones of your own choosing. All of the audio files are
- included on this disk, so you should be able to synch your own digitized
- sounds to the animation.
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- Feel free to pass this disk on to other proud Amiga owners, but please
- leave all of the files, including this one on the disk.
-
- Marvin Landis
- 904 Sumner Place
- Las Cruces, NM 88001
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- MLANDIS (PeopleLink)
- MCSMAL@NMSUVM1 (BITNET)
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