Fantastic Amiga / DPaint animation

[Ral-Clan]

Hi, I stumbled across this really well done animation.

http://vimeo.com/1007912

It was made on an Amiga 500 with 3MB of RAM in 1995, using Deluxe Paint and SCALA.

Wow!  At that time I was thinking my Amiga 500 with hard drive was too slow to do any serious work, and if I *only* had a faster Amiga I could get some creative work done.  I went on to get an A2500 with 020 card that year and soon after wanted to upgrade again to a 68040 card so I could "finally" do "serious work".

In the meanwhile, people like this were doing amazing stuff with basic resources.  

Just goes to show....it's not about having the fancy tools, it's about making-due with what you already have and using it to its full potential.

[mbrantley]

Very nicely done and a great find! Proves the MiniMig could be good for more than games.

[Amiduffer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFlvsPTAFo

I just finished this animation for a friends YouTube channel using DPaint4, which is exactly the kind of look he wants. He wants modifications, but, with DPaint, its a snap.

[saimon69]

Well, thanks, i had my good share of satisfactions with that animation: placed second and first in two italian comeptitions and  third in a finnish competition

Technically i made all sequences separated and used only 16 colors for each sequence; lots of animbrushes and at the end i had to assemble it at home of a friend of mine that was having an a4000 in order to check the sync corerctly.

Even more impressive technically was this: Delusion!the videoclip (sorry that the song is in italian) that lasted five minutes, used an unique 8 color palette and was put together with a linear video editing system to sync with the song, pity that for copyright problems i was unable to submit it....

Saimon69

[Cammy]

You guys are so talented, that's some really nice work!

[Manu]

Nice Saimon really nice !!
I did see many man hours spent on those.

Your artwork should be on display this channel :
http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/amiga.html

I hope he'll contact you. ;-)

[J-Golden]

WOW!
 
You are really good man!
 
I loved this one:
 
http://vimeo.com/1008014
 
The whole anim was smooth and very well done.  Congratz!

[Ral-Clan]

Well, thanks, i had my good share of satisfactions with that animation: placed second and first in two italian comeptitions and  third in a finnish competition

Technically i made all sequences separated and used only 16 colors for each sequence; lots of animbrushes and at the end i had to assemble it at home of a friend of mine that was having an a4000 in order to check the sync corerctly.

I did check out all of your videos there and really loved the degree of talent (also very impressed with what you were able to push out of "only" an A500 with 3MB of RAM).

I must ask: did you use a graphics tablet or did you draw all that with a mouse?

[saimon69]

I used mouse, and several steps from defining with sketch the animation (with base keyframes defined as sticks and, first making the missing frames then doing the correct shape over it with the lightbox and coloring it at the end), copying the animbrush and pasting it in the background (or the animated bg according to what was needed)

Saimon69

[Ral-Clan]

I used mouse, and several steps from defining with sketch the animation (with base keyframes defined as sticks and, first making the missing frames then doing the correct shape over it with the lightbox and coloring it at the end), copying the animbrush and pasting it in the background (or the animated bg according to what was needed)

Saimon69

I'm impressed.  I've always found freehand drawing with the Amiga mouse a little tricky.
So if you were using the lightbox function, you must have been using DPAINT IV or V?
Was there any lightbox function on DPAINT III?

Very good work.

I am still learning animation on DPAINT (I wish I had gotten a decent manual in the 1990s).  The only thing I wish today is that there was a real update to DPAINT that allowed it to use RTG screens, or at least create 16:9 aspect animations.

I don't think Electronic Arts will ever release the source code.

Personal Paint is a good RTG clone of DPAINT, but is missing the lightbox function, LockBG function and you cannot do perspective rotation on a brush!

[RMK305]

Great work.

I doubt Electronic Arts even know where the source code is these days.

[A1260]

so what hw upgrade was the 3mb ram for the a500?

[shef57]

I wish there must be a newer version in D paint
Amiga 4000, Warp Engine 040/40MHz, CV643D with scan doubler module,  Tocatta soundcard, Deneb, 72Meg fast ram, 18 gig scsi hard drive
Animation Studios
Animation Studios Delhi

[mechy]

Well, thanks, i had my good share of satisfactions with that animation: placed second and first in two italian comeptitions and  third in a finnish competition

Technically i made all sequences separated and used only 16 colors for each sequence; lots of animbrushes and at the end i had to assemble it at home of a friend of mine that was having an a4000 in order to check the sync corerctly.

Even more impressive technically was this: Delusion!the videoclip (sorry that the song is in italian) that lasted five minutes, used an unique 8 color palette and was put together with a linear video editing system to sync with the song, pity that for copyright problems i was unable to submit it....

Saimon69

I just checked out delusion.. HAHA! pretty funny.

Mech

[saimon69]

@a1260
the typical 512k internal expansion plus an external 2mb one on the zorro side slot; so if you think 512k chip + 2.5 mb fast = 3mb