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.

[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?

[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!