Amiga World Animation Video Vol. 1 (Part 1/6)

[ChristopherSmith2010]

I'm 13 and wow, I really wanna be a 3D animator, please someone let me know if you know where I can get an Amiga for a good price?

[surfitlive]

Dramatic SQUIRREL at 1:15 !!!!! (without the squirrel though)

Yet again, ahead of its time, even for 'viral Youtube' vids. LOL

[bearchildofdeath]

*badumbadumbadumbadum*

i want my MTV.... :P

[melbrooksjew]

The First VHS Amgia one was amazing but the second one was better, more effort put into the idea rather than this first amgia tape just shown mostly had Amgia in there animation and got chosen to be put the video. I don't know I find it kind of brown nosing to amgia just so your animation get's chosen,... know that i think of it lots of animations even before this came out they too brown nosed company names in the animation.Well I guess it's the old if you can't bet them join them rotine I guess

[bIue2]

Eric is Amiga's mascot!

[Lars99]

No amiga animations without Eric Schwartz, it's what i will say. ; )

[Hotshotter3000]

Man, if this was what the Amiga could do and the fact that one person could create all this... I'm actually kinda shocked as to why it didn't continue. Pity that Commodore died out in 1994, along with the final Amiga computer release.

[Hiraghm]

@Hotshotter3000

Marketing and sales. CBM didn't know what they had, advertised and developed in the wrong direction.

[Nextwave1980]

I had this video, and never thought that I'd ever see it again. This shows that there is still people in the Amiga community and are still impressed with the capabilities of the machine. It was so far ahead of its time.. The worst part.. I know of an Amiga4000T that has less then 48 hours running on it and its now sitting unconnected with no hope of ever being turned on again.  Fully loaded with a PPC and Video Toaster 4000.. such a shame.

[jackedup447]

@Nextwave1980 are you the owner

[Nextwave1980]

@jackedup447 Owner? I owned this video as a kid while I was working with Deluxe Paint IV and Lightwave back in the 90s... this video was probably around 1989 or so. I probably still have this video kicking around at my parents place.. there was a few videos they made. (Amiga World Mag) Desktop publishing 101 and editing 101.. a whole bunch.. I'll have to see if I can find them and convert them to OGV or AVI.. I'm strictly Linux now. Only operating system that feels like the amiga days! :D

[Hiraghm]

@Nextwave1980

Have you checked out Aros or visited the a-eon.com website?

[surfitlive]

@Nextwave1980

I think the last question was do you own the Amiga4000T that is(was) siting away (2 years now?) What is its current status?, if you know.

[elliottwaxer]

Wow, amazing. So this is what Vol. 1 looked like. I personally have Amiga World Vol. 2, a video I watched extensively in my childhood. Videos like these alongside the Mind's Eye and animation festival videos greatly please me in the sense these were the true origins of CGI, back when I feel it was still about experimentation and a more respected art form, all this in correlation with "the tree Snake" segment. Bizarre, but totally original.

[niatona]

I don't know if it's relevant to Amiga, but there was an animation my dad used to show me all the time, and he was an Amiga user. It was about a hollow glass sphere, with a barrier deviding it into two hemispheres, one containing birds, the other containing fish. Eventually a birds breaks through the barrier in order to get to one of the fish. Does anyone know the one I'm talking about? I'd love to see it again.

[deltaray3]

That's an animation from The Mind's Eye called Breaking the Ice. It was made back in the 80s. Look for The Mind's Eye on Youtube. It has nothing to do with the Amiga as far as I know.

[niatona]

Thank you very much, I havn't seen that in ages! These Amiga animations are amazing too, I have lots of great memories experimenting with 3D and other programs with my dad on his Amiga.

[thrid2]

@niatona You are looking for a piece called Breaking the Ice with two characters Stanley (Bird) and Stella (fish). It was made by a company called Symbolics, as a demo for S-animate / S-Model etc.

[adric22]

Looks like it was captured from a VHS tape.. Maybe if somebody has the originals, a digital capture could be done and would have a lot higher quality, even for youtube.

[deltaray3]

It is a "digital capture". A digital capture of an analogue source. See, I actually recorded this to my MiniDV camcorder first through RCA cables (Analogue to digital), then I transfered the video to my computer (digital to digital). I really doubt you'd get any higher quality than this. They didn't have DVDs when this was made obviously and even broadcast quality tape degrades over time. Honestly, the quality isn't that bad. The original captures that I made look much better than on Youtube.

[adric22]

That is what I meant, was a studio master. It might have been analog beta or possibly digital VHS. Either way would look better than analog VHS.. Oh well.

[kragle2008]

@adric22 why would you want a digital version? Amiga to VHS is beautiful it captures the era perfectly with no pixels or degrading audio quality and video! Id love to record directly onto a video ;-)

[jokton]

Wow. Have not seen that in ages. I was so surprised at the time that they put it at the first of the video. I was only 16 at the time, did most of it pixel-by-pixel in deluxepaint 3.

[deltaray3]

Wow, I'm glad you found this video Jokton. Out of curiosity, did you find it by searching for your name or were you looking for this video? BTW, I thought your animation was worthy of being at the beginning. It was a good intro.

[ejackso10]

I think I still have this video somewhere...watced it every day when

I was a young'un.

[warman]

OMG, this is such a nostalgia trip.

The best machine ever...

[jci10]

Allen Hastings Lightwave demos (well, before it became Lightwave) are on part 3 of this series....

[bsinforoso]

Thx man, Im looking for this video a long time!!!