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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. > > 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. > > Yeah - it really is amazing how much things have changed since then. > > And the renders *still* take 2 hours! > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
