# 3DS on Prime Time CBS!
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3D Studio used on CBS Prime Time Special! Best spot in Ratings Week!
Animations depicting the creation of the earth and flood all created by The
Pyros Partnership, mastered to laser disk, dubbed to Beta SP, edited on 1".
Excerpt from the official CBS announcement:
"THE INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY OF NOAH'S ARK"
A CBS Television Network World Premier Two-Hour Special
Hosted by Darren McGavin
Airing in the U.S. and Canada on the evening of Friday, February 12, 1993
(Check your local television guide for program time.)
A great mystery lies hidden high on a permanently snow-covered
mountaintop in Eastern Turkey. This 5,000-year-old mystery has influenced
all the civilizations of the world and is reflected in their literature
throughout the ages.
A man-made artifact – the object of this mystery – has attracted the
attention of the CIA and the Russian KGB. Both Russian and United States
spy satellites have secretly photographed this mysterious object protruding
from the snow-capped summit of Mt. Ararat. The photographs remain "top
secret" and are stored in underground military vaults.
What is this mysterious artifact explorers risk their lives trying to
find? Could it really be the biblical Ark of Noah that rests on Mt. Ararat?
The evidence will challenge your understanding of our past and stimulate
your thinking about our future as we journey along thepath to the incredible
discovery of Noah's Ark.
>> Noah arc,
Greg,
Well now … Pyros and Noah's Ark …. Heston and The Ten Commandments …
associations that have become part of the American experience. <g>
All seriousness aside … _CONGRADULATIONS_!!!!
Ang
It's on my calendar, Greg!
– G
Gary:
Great! The only thing to remember is that the show was completed _before_
IPAS, now knowing all the new stuff we could have added…
You know what it's like to view something 6 months after you created it in
this fast-changing animation world? <g>
Can't complain, though – the reason CBS held it this long was to save it
for the best time slot in ratings week!
I hope they spelled my name right in the credits… <really big g>
Greg Pyros
PS – I didn't mention it in my original posting, but we did all the title
sequences and head credits (in 3DS, of course), also! And rendered out the
matts for them to composite over live video, for whoever was questioning if
anyone did this technique that long ago!
Greg:
Congratulations. This is a very important credit and you have every reason
to be proud! We'll be sure to watch it here in Dallas. How about
uploading a short fli file?
Ken Loss-Cutler
Ken:
The project was completed 6 months ago, so I don't have any output still on
computer disk. It consists of 7 or so individual pieces, plus all the
titles and head credits – about four minutes of 'pure' animation.
What I'll do is capture a handful of representative frames from the laser
disk and combine them into a slow-playback fli and upload it this week.
If people are _really_ interested in a true fli file, I could rotoscope it
all back in from the laser and run it through numpic in Ani Pro. Pretty
easy to do, just 'computer' time consuming – but still a lot quicker than
re-rendering!
Greg Pyros
I assume that you keep all your project files. We have all our script
files back to 1988. Believe it: there are times that we pull stuff up and
reuse it; usually not even for the same client. As for the fli files, don't
go to any major lengths; it was just an idea. We enjoy showing off stuff
that other's do with 3DS. It's a good sales point to be able to say "we
can do stuff like this on our system". Alec Jason's Mitchell fli files,
for example, were important in helping us land our own murder recreation
cases. In return, we forwarded fli files of _our_ case to Autodesk for
further dissemination and we hope that our work might help others to get
their own projects, too. Congratulations, again.
Ken Loss-Cutler
Ken:
Of course, all files (shapes, lofts, 3DS, maps, and PRJ) used to create the
images are always saved and double-backed up for posterity. Just the targas
and flis are tossed when project is complete and on laser disk.
Greg Pyros
Greg,
Congratulations! Can you tell me more about The Pyros Partnership? I'm
working on animating astronomical phenomena for an educational documentary.
Gary has helped me understand some techniques for multiple-orbital
simulations. I'm really looking forward to seeing your work. It sounds
like it will have exactly some of the stuff that I want to do for my video.
Thanks,
Dirk
Dear ALL:
Oh Boy!
Just when I wait a month to make sure it is finalized, the next working day
CBS changes their lineup!
DATE CHANGE for the "Amazing Discovery of Noah's Ark" special!
The latest date will be Saturday, February 20, 1993!
Please reset your VCRs! <g>
Greg (always at the whim of the networks) Pyros