On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Damon Jason Casale wrote:

Well, just to give you an idea, the machines here in the campus computer
cluster are P-120's, 32 megs RAM, 1 Gig HD.  Don't know the rest of the
specs.

Sounds good, but you're probably going to need my HD storage.  Even with 
a P-120, I don't know how fast renderings would run.

However, the output to videotape would be the trickest part.

Natch.  A hifi stereo VCR is my other project.

That and the video I/O card.

I'm curious.  *Has* animation from some of the anime we watch been done
and sequenced on a computer?  What about the music?

Lots.  I remember a really good section on it on the Akira LDs.

Can you be more specific?  I assume you mean there was a documentary
contained on the LDs, describing some computer animation/music in Akira.
Was *all* of Akira done on a computer, or just parts of it?

Yes, it was a documentary.  The art was definitely done by hand, but I 
think most of the frame-by-frame animation/sound/sync was done with 
computer aided equipment.  I specifically remember a section where this 
guy was talking about how using computer syncing for the dialogue and 
animation that he could to it in a third of the time needed for 
non-computerized equipment.

Try getting some info on Macross Plus, as a lot of it was done with 
computers and some scenes were completely SGI.

I was just wondering.  But even so, in two years a friend of mine is
inheriting at least a million dollars, (more if he can get things sorted
out with the will; it's being contested and mucked around with) and we
could plunk some of it down on a video.  Maybe even start our own company,
though I'm not sure if a million would go very far.  That, and I've heard
that it's not a very profitable industry unless you get really lucky.

You could setup a company like Animeigo!  Anime for fen by fen.

Frank