#Animation Studio
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Mark,
I'm the product manager for Animator Studio, and this is my first hour on
CompuServe. My id number is 71732,3306. I'll be talking to you very soon.
(gotta run)
more to come.
Mark,
Welcome to the show! Are you here to help support AA Studio? Perhaps
we should get a plaque for your desk "The Flak stops here" <g>.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Hi Mark,
It's great to see you on CIS. I'll send you some of my thoughts about AAS on
Friday.
Mark
Hoy, there he is, live and in person. Welcome to the forum, Mark!
TedB
-Ted Boardman
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Hi Mar. I just got the Animator Studio demo cd and was pleased to see
you're still using my Screaming Mouse animation in your demos! I animated that
mouse about 7 or 8 years ago on an Amiga and left it here on CompuServe in the
Amiga forum. From what I've heard it's been floating around Europe and now
it's in Animator Studio. I get a BIG kick every time I see it!
After seeing the demo, I'm not sure if Animator Studio is something I'd use
on a regular basis, but I'm glad I had a chance to see it in action.
Glenn!
Great animation. That mouse has been everywhere!
–mark
I also saw the screaming mouse at a Comdex – there was live video of a guy
against a blue curtain holding out his hand. On the computer monitor the mouse
would take one look (or was it 2?!) at him and zoom off screen.
Nice to know who made that.
Mark,
Glad to see you here in the forum!
Can you give me a status update on the situation w/ Adobe? Specifically, the
font and plug-in support…
Thanks!
-Glen
Glen,
Animator Studio supports Photoshop compatible plugins as filter inks.
What that means is that you can load Aldus Gallery Effects, or Kai's Power
Tools in and paint with them. You can't load in PhotoShop's own filters
however. (thank you Adobe. PhotoShop filters actually check to see if you're
running PhotoShop).
Fonts, i suspect not. We only support Truetype fonts. At one time we hoped to
get Postscript Type 1 through Adobe Type Manager, but that one got away from
us.
More to come,
–marK
Mark,
Thanks for the quick reply… I understand the issue with fonts, but the
Photoshop filters are compatible with other programs such as Fractal Painter…
they _are_ just filters, is this more of a licensing compatibility?
-Glen
" but the Photoshop filters are compatible with other programs such as Fractal
Painter"
I hadn't realized that was the case. I believe the programmers at Autodesk are
under the impression that there is code in Adobe filters that prevents them
from running under non-Adobe products like AAStudio.
Mark Gerhard (thanks Mark!) will probably be the best person to help track this
down. I'll also forward this to QA.
Nik,
Sadly, I was terribly wrong. At least with compatibility with Painter 3.0…
I SWEAR I had (with Painter 2.0) switched my plug-in directory and used
Photoshop filters inside Painter. I (of course) hadn't tried it since I
received my upgrades. This could have worked before I got the Photoshop 3.0
upgrade, I think.
Again, I'm real sorry for leading anyone down this path – I just checked it
out with Painter 3 and Photoshop 3 and they don't work.
Oops!
-Glen
" I just checked it out with Painter 3 and Photoshop 3 and they don't work."
Whew! Thanks for letting us know. At least we have someone to blame if anyone
thinks that Painter will read Adobe filters!!! <g>
Nik
Nik,
Uh oh, I _could_ be in serious trouble! <BG>
-Glen
Welcome and Good Luck Mark!
You're a very brave man….<BG>
Murph'