Excerpts from mail: 20-Oct-95 Re: Animate! by 'D'Artagnan' F. Ho@u.was 

I wonder what kind of work it would take to animate one of the
independents (like "The Beginning" or "Scyth").  Just how much can you
do on a PC?

Well, at a guess, the renderings and animation/sequencing could be done 
on a PC, but you would probably need a really juiced up machine with a 
boatload of storage and memory.

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.

I'm going to *try* to swing a P-100 or 120 next semester.  Right now, all
I have is my crappy Amiga 500.  (which still rocks pretty bad in sound and
gfx)

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

Natch.  A hifi stereo VCR is my other project.

I just finished a fanwork Ranma music video, and that was pretty much 
maxing out my machine.  (DX4-100, 16M-RAM, 2.0G-HD)  Output through a 
MAC-8100/100AV, the best I could do was half screen size and it was still 
kinds grainy.  I was just using digital video and audio.  If added 
renderings and animeation to it, you'd need a lot more horsepower.  It 
might be easier to do it on an SGI.

Too bad I don't have access to that kind of stuff.

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?


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.

Damon Casale, dc56+@andrew.cmu.edu

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