Aegis Demo Tape

[Sean Cunningham]

I'm wondering if any of you good folks have, or maybe even have seen, a videotape that Aegis sent out mostly to dealers, in the 1988-1989 time period.  It was full of nothing but short animations done in Aegis Animator and Videoscape, including several works by Allen Hastings, along with some short clips of a few games.  

A lot of it was cooler and funnier and more interesting than what made it onto the AmigaWorld video that same year.  I watched the hell out of it while I was working at a local Amiga dealer my senior year in high school and the summer after that but my copy has been long lost over the years.

There's so little online related to Aegis I have a feeling this might be one of those things that's just lost to Time.  It was a great collection of Amiga history though and it would be a shame.

There were a couple that had animated to sound effects, score and audio clips from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Blue Thunder that were just really funny and inventive, especially for the time.

[Duce]

Seen it and owned it at one time.  Obtained it from the dealer I bought my first A3000 from.  Unfortunately either long gone at this point, or in a box somewhere.

[Sean Cunningham]

Aw, that's too bad.  But at least I know I didn't imagine it all!  Hah-hah.

I've got the equipment to capture VHS as high a quality as possible and figure the nature of the imagery is such that it should take enhancement rather well.  I'd love to get ahold of one, get it captured, enhanced and then posted for others to enjoy and reminisce.

If I remember right there might have even been a section where they spoof themselves, doing a sort of behind-the-scenes at Aegis or something.  I dunno, it's been a while.  But we had a bunch of cool tapes.  I wish I still had copies of all the in-store marketing stuff we got from Commodore.  We had a bunch of stuff related to the commercials they made with Lucasfilm and a lot of interview material with artists like Kara, etc.  They seemed to really be trying around this time, when the A2500 was the hot ticket.

One of the artists featured I would, many years later, end up working with at Digital Domain when we absorbed the Lightwave team from Amblin Imaging.

[PJHull]

I am always looking out for Videos over on EAB so I will keep an eye out for Aegis stuff for you... I'll post back here if I find anything.

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=849839&postcount=1

Found these to look at online...

http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/aegis/thu_aegis.html

[Sean Cunningham]

Ah, very cool.

I remember that Red Baron loop quite well from back then.  I'm pretty sure it was one of the ANIMs we'd sometime leave looped on one of the display floor models to get folks' attention.  

Videoscape had a very unique shading model and dither when doing non-HAM renders.  Simple as it is I like a lot of the solid model and wireframe look from this era more than looking at poorly lit images using bad raytracers.