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Subject: Re: [AE] The History of Adobe After Effects
From: Angie-Taylor <angie-taylor@ntlworld.com>
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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:15:32 +0000
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Sad to say I remember creating rolling credits by wrapping the txt round =
a drum and rotating it in front of a real camera! Hang on, where's my =
walking stick! ;-)


On 1 Feb 2013, at 19:10, Paul Miller wrote:

> On 2/1/2013 9:37 AM, mylenium@mylenium.de wrote:
>> I tend to see it from a different angle, coming from a 3D graphics
>> background. I don't think anyone was actually excluded in the past.
>> People just take affordable equipment or things like discounted
>> education versions for granted these days, luxuries we never had. =
There
>> wasn't even something like Blender around when I started out as an 3D
>> artist 19 years ago.
>=20
> My first 3D work was in 1988, using an Amiga program called =
Videoscape. It didn't have a UI - you had to type everything into a text =
file, including the data for your models, animation paths, etc. I =
plotted everything out on graph paper and then converted it to numbers =
as I typed it in. Then you waited 2 hours for your spheres and boxes to =
render at 320x240.
>=20
> Yeah - it really is amazing how much things have changed since then.
>=20
> And the renders *still* take 2 hours!
>=20
>=20
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