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- Animation:Christmas Card 12/9/88
- by Ken Baer
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- I created this animation using Animation:Apprentice, Animation:Multiplane,
- and Animation:Editor from Hash Enterprises, and Deluxe Paint II from
- Electronic Arts. To play the animation use the Display module or
- ShowANIM (4.0 or greater). You need at least 1 Meg to play this animation.
-
- The background text was created by using a couple of fonts
- from Calligrapher, and playing with some basic brush functions.
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- To create the Santa and Raindeer "flyby", I used characters created by
- Todd Kesterson on the Christmas Apprentice Library disk. The disk already
- had the characters and actions I needed. Then I created the flyby choreography.
- In order to make the output animation small (177K), I scaled down the
- characters so that they were about 1 inch high, and I rendered
- the frames with 32 colors rather than in HAM. I rendered 120 frames which
- took about 6 hours (that's about 3 minutes/frame). Notice that these
- characters are fully shaded, smoothly rounded, and have many moving parts.
- The frames would have taken the same time if I'd made the objects bigger,
- and would have rendered even faster if I used HAM (it has to do more
- calculating to reduce the number of colors to 32).
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- I then used Animation:Multiplane to overlay the animation over the background
- that I had created. And finally, I converted the animation to ANIM using
- Animation:Editor. I could have added all sorts of detail to the animation
- with Animation:Rotoscope, but I was too lazy to dink with all 120 frames.
-
- Anyway, Merry Christmas everybody, and I hope you enjoy this animated card.
-
- -Ken Baer.
- Hash Enterprises
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