Babylon 5 - lost tales

[kidkoala]

@all

He meant WHERE primitive, when using Amigas you got great results from a small budget back then, whereas using really expensive equipment would produces better results, but for a much higher price. Babylon 5's budget for FX was RELATIVELY small, compared to movies made for theater etc.

[kidkoala]

If the Babylon 5 people had more money, they would've used a studio. I also remember having read that somewhere in an article about the low budget and using Amigas. After the first season they migrated over to a bigger studio using PC's, among other things because they got a bigger budget for the following seasons. If using Amigas gave you better results why didn't all the big producers and moviemakers use the same Amigastudio as Babylon 5 did? (remember they didn't do it themselves, they used a small Amiga fx-studio). Basically what i'm saying is using the incredibly cheap, but smart and powerful solutions of the Amiga gave them the power they needed at first, when the success of the series showed they dropped the small amiga-firm for something else that presumably also cost more.

[kidkoala]

@weirdami

hehe, thanks for noticing me, though you could've done it in a more friendly manner??

@tigger

I don't know details like you do, so it's great that people with knowledge puts out some info., but I think we kinda agree here. They moved to pc because they were faster you say, I say they moved to pc's because they were better, so that's about the same reason. And how could they have made the move over to faster equipment if they didn't get a bigger budget from the producers (changing all your equipment etc. is not a cheap migration)? The new studio (as I call it when you get new equipment, probably new housing, probably a few new employers and a new name for the company) must've cost more than a few amigas with lightwave..
I agree that the transition also probably was made due to the Commodore bankruptcy.

[kidkoala]

I don't think using a personal example like yours qualify but anyway..the migration started after the first season..