This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Greg, I agree with you on all points, guess I always want the best of everything. I wonder if it would be possible to use the laserdisk as an encoder and still use the diaquest as the frame accurate trigger? Would the Laserdisk cause any problems by having the signal…
Greg, PMJI but ……….. The only problem is that with a write once media, you can't insert edit, and with very few post houses running the laserdisks, you still need a way to dump the media to SP to use it. In this area, we have over 200 post houses…
We received your message, I believe the drive was shipped Monday, I'll check with my secretary in the morning and get you a tracking number and price. Paul
Rachid, Please send the info again, our CIS system is automated to scan a number of boards and we had a major crash on the system. I haven't seen the info and the drive is still sitting here. Sorry About That, Paul
Ana, No-one has claimed that they are devine, or that they hold diety status, you really do have a tremendous problem with exagerations. No-one has attacked you, or given you a lack of respect. Your opinion is just as important as the other 250,000+ art students with doctorates. You simply…
Ana, I'm beginning to lose alot of this conversation in the translation, so I'd prefer not to take up the forum space continuing the thread. To close, the top industry work does involve a tremendous amount of artwork, far more disciplines are involved than you may realize. In addition to…
David, I'm glad you liked the thread. I always hesitate to discuss art because it is extremely dear to my heart. When you become passionate about a subject, it becomes increasingly difficult to discuss it. ( Ever tried to discuss religion or politics? 🙂 ) I agree that formal schooling…
[>> Continued from previous msg] Instead most have had to endure the indignities of people like yourself, telling them that their work would never be what the masters had created. But since it appears your existence is based on paperwork you'd probably like to know that some of the individuals…
Ana, Wow, what a message! And I'm always afraid that I'm too long winded. Let it suffice to say that although you've spent alot of time studying the art, there are a tremendous number of individuals in the animation world, not to mention in this forum who have qualifications far…
Don, You would probably get a better answer from the Herc support guys about this, but I'll send you my opinions and a outline of our Herc use in an Email. Paul
Ana, I think you knew you were taking the message out of context when you replied, just to start a discertation about a few traditional animators, but….. First of all the reference was to traditional 2D cel animation versus the bleeding edge realm of computer graphics based animation and special…
On what it takes to output 4K computer graphics for film, IMHO you need to start in the $150,000 to $500,000 price range, for minimum configs, then you need the operating knowledge to produce the work. You're not going to find this type of hardware or knowledge in the low…
As Doug said, it's not easy, and it's also extremely hard to do on a PC platform. Our current goal involves making the transition into the film market and we've been investing alot of time and effort into the transition. Making contacts with the right people is obviously a step…
PMJI on your PMJI, but IMHO $75 an hour is not high in this market. As a matter of fact if our company used that as a basis we would be broke in less than three months. Working cheaper may be possible for one or two man firms but for…
Equipment Liquidation
Message #45596
We're liquidating a few pieces of demo equipment. One Targa+32 w/Videomaker, In original box with all manuals $900 One Pioneer DRM-600 6 disk CD-ROM multichanger, external unit with its own power supply. Never used $700 One Nec Multispin CDR-84 internal CDRom Drive used as a demo drive for 2 presentations…
Smaller Files
Message #44959
At the request for smaller files, so that CIS members can save money, two new files highlighting Anim8 Inc.'s new 3D Studio font sets have been uploaded to Area 9. The file ANIM8.ZIP is 32K and includes a gif file highlighting a few of our topical font sets. The file…
[>> Continued from previous msg] number of bevelled and hollow font sets designed specifically for 3D extrusion. All specialty sets are designed from a centerline perspective and provide you with the absolute ultimate in font technology. There isn't a comparable font collection in existence! If you make your living from…
#ANIM8 Inc. Press Release
Message #44907
For years Anim8 Inc. has been designing custom topical fonts for professional titling and logo work. Animators know that if they want to create the ultimate presentation, selecting the right type is an extremely important task. Whether you need a futuristic font, something with a Middle Eastern flavor, or Stars…
FONTS!!
Message #44816
ANIM8 Incorporated is thrilled to announce that it's collection of 3D Studio fonts is shipping effective immediately. The collection has been titled "Fifty-Two Degrees", and comprises the largest collection of topical fonts ever to be introduced to the video/animation market. There has been a phenomenal stir over our bevelled and…
Steve, There are no doubt a number of companies and individuals working on various IPAS routines including .sxp's, I know of at least one, probably two, but they aren't shipping yet. Paul
Steven, Actually, I'm very pleased to say that no reference sources were used for the plug, just a very bizarre mind filled with years of clutter from the advertisement industry. Paul
Don, No problem on the questions, we're always glad to help. If your using a full length AMI SCSI-2 16MB caching controller, then we're using the same one. The Quantum drive (I'm assuming it's a ProDrv-1225S) is fully SCSI-2 compatible. However one problem that ~may~ be arising is multiple hardware…
Don, I can come pretty close to the configuration you mentioned. We are running AMI EISA Motherboards with AMI EISA SCSI cache conrollers, the controllers are running various amounts of ram. All of our systems have at least 64 megs of ram on the MB, but we have still found…
Don, All of our systems run Eisa Scsi drive controllers and we haven't had any problems. If there's a particular board we could check for you let us know. Paul
Another thing to keep in mind is that AAPro does not currently support extended characters in their postscript format. So depending upon the manufacturer, you'll need to go in and map the extended characters to an ISO Latin 1 ASCII format and perform a conversion to AAPro's native format. Corel…
Jim, Fontmonger won't convert to anything AAPro will use except Postscript. You should also make sure that the font you're converting is privately owned since fonts are licensed, if you convert the format and obtain money for doing so without owning such rights, it's a felony. Since I'm assuming you…
[>> Continued from previous msg] Sorry about all of the questions, you have to understand that a large part of my life is centered around typography. I've been designing type on varying levels for over 10 years, and I sit in a room with hundreds of volumes of font code.…
Phil, I checked out your example and it is really a strange way of presenting a font. I'm taking it for granted that as I hit the enter key, it is overlaying the four layers of matrix. In the first layer the font is purposely missing pixels to make it…
Doug, If Phil works with the technique in Grasp, then why doesn't he write a poco routine to utilize them in Ani Pro? I have a copy of Grasp but never really use it because it doesn't do anything that I need. I apologize for not digging out the program…
#ANI-PRO Font Editor
Message #36997
Phil, There really isn't such an item as Anti-aliased fonts. In an extremely simple explanation, programs use standard font files and use a "dirtying" routine to create blurred edges by calculating pixels with colors in between the font color and the background color. This blurring allows the text to look…
Jure Spiler, The standard ANI PRO 1.3 fonts include full ASCII character sets conforming to English,Italian,Spanish,German, & French Extended ASCII codes. The standard 255 character ASCII is therefore directly supported. The postscript implementation in Ani Pro does not support extended ASCII sets only Standard ASCII code (i.e. – through character…
Greg, I agree with you on the overenthusiastic salesman attitude. I've picked up a couple of AG7750's extremely cheap and relatively unused thanks to their misleading people. Paul -anxiously awaiting the CBS special.
Greg, You're not actually agreeing that anyone who doesn't use Betacam or Laserdisk technology is misdirecting their funding are you? There are alot of people out there who make EXTREMELY comfortable livings and run EXTREMELY successful companies off of 8bit alone. We have had months where we've generated +$30,000 off…
Kevin, I'm running a series of 50 & 66 MHZ EISA systems AMI/MICRONICS/MYLEX/ EVEREX/ & HAUPAUGE. The machines are networked via Netware 3.11 250 node. The DGPSUMI.EXP can use polling or interrupts. I tend to use the polling option. The fact that the serial ports are built into the motherboard…
Kevin, Far be it from me to dispute Summa tech support, but I took the time to use the ADI driver development toolkit last night and I compiled the standard SummaSketch ADI (DGPSUMI.EXP). The driver has worked fine for the last 7 hours. It is extremely responsive in Studio, haven't…
Gary, Since 3DStudio apparently uses standard ADI drivers, why couldn't the Summa drivers for ACAD work? I know that AniPro has its own driver class but it seems that a driver could be compiled from the standard code with the ADI kit and then accessed as an external driver as…
Evan: I found the original message in the thread. 3DS and Autocad drivers? Sounds fantastic! Are you running this board or is there another board that produces this resolution? Paul
Evan, Thanks alot for the quick reply! I'll make the call this morning. I have a couple of 6FG's and have never seen a resolution of that magnitude. I can see why it won't work with the 5D's do to the fact that the 5D ends at 110Mhz. An interesting…
# 1600x1200x24bit
Message #31822
If there is a way to run 24 bit at 1600×1200 I'm extremely interested. I missed the beginning of this thread and I apologize for jumping in but that resolution sounds great! What kind of Horizontal and Vertical synch does this card use? If it will synch on a 6FG…
FLCS
Message #29953
We have a client who is in dire need to compile an animation into an executable form. The flc's need to be locked in some way to prevent tampering at a later date. The project in question is military related and the parties involved want to assure that the military…
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