Just Incase no one knew this about the VIDEO TOASTER

[leirbag28]

Brad Carvey
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Brad Carvey is an engineer, designer of the first wire-wrapped Video Toaster, from a design by NewTek founder Tim Jenison. He's also the brother of Saturday Night Live veteran Dana Carvey.

Dana's nerdy character Garth Algar in the Wayne's World comedy sketches and movies is based on Brad. In the film Wayne's World II, Garth is wearing a Video Toaster T-Shirt.

Brad has also done visual effects for feature films and TV shows.

In 1992 Dana and Brad both won Primetime Emmys. Brad's was for "Outstanding achievement in Engineering" for the development of the Video Toaster.



Love It!  Amiga Rules !!!!
Magicians Penn and Teller were Video Toaster Evangelists
and Will Weaton (Wesley Crusher) from Start Trek The Next Generation was a Heavy Video Toaster user.


..............Wonder what he is doing now?

[Gojirax]

http://www.wilwheaton.net/

Wil has a blog he updates all the time about his life and what he does. He's a pretty avid internet poster and all around regular guy.

[leirbag28]

@Gojirax

Cool!

here is another cool link about the Toaster:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/flying.toasters.html


been wondering if there has been any progress with the Video Toaster Open SOurce?  it would be nice to see extra cool features for the software or entirely new Software

Maybe a VJ application that lets you use the Toaster for VJ-ing at clubs!

We need that!

[coldfish]

I really hated Wesley Crusher (the charachter).

Wtf was with him becomming a trans-dimentional-wanderer-being thing when he left the Enterprise?  

Worst write-out of a cast memeber ever.

[Marco]

Everyone hated Wesley, Gene was getting on in year by then and made all sorts of retarded decisions re: TNG.

BTW, I've heard somewhere that the VT was used to do the CG for Babylon5, is this true? Surely B5 was after the Amiga was already dead...

[B00tDisk]

BTW, I've heard somewhere that the VT was used to do the CG for Babylon5, is this true? Surely B5 was after the Amiga was already dead...

Foundation Imaging did the effects shots with Lightwave initially; the Toasters in the A2000s and 3000s they used were there as "hardware dongles"; all the other normal image compositing was done traditionally (not with the Toaster).  They did it because they were on a comparative shoestring budget.

After the pilot was picked up, fortuitously NewTek gave up trying to sell Lightwave and the Toaster only as a package and Foundation switched to NT running on Alpha systems using LW over there exclusively.

[Will-i-am]

from a behind the scenes site on Babylon5:

The B5 effects teams, both at Foundation and at NDI, use Lightwave 3D by NewTek and specialized software to design and render the visual effects. For the pilot, the effects were rendered on a network of Amiga computers; later, Foundation used 12 Pentium PCs and 5 DEC Alpha workstations for 3D rendering and design, and 3 Macintoshes for piecing together on-set computer displays.