Triangular Dream

Official selection of the 1990 Dallas Video Festival and the 1989 University of North Texas Student Film Festival. The very first all-CG work at either one.

My VERY, VERY first CG animations. 1980's AMIGA computer graphics. In glorious 320 x 240 res, 4096-color HAM.

All the best-loved classics: spinning chrome, extruded letters, space ships, walk cycles and a pink flamingo.

In 1989 I first got access to a rare device known as a video tape editor and made this montage of my earliest CG animations.

This was before real 3D animation controls existed. To "animate" you had to alter the model and save a new version of the scene for each frame.

Every shot had to fit all rendered frames on one floppy disk (no hard drive back then) and had to play from the 512K RAM of the AMIGA 1000. I recorded each to VHS at home and then snuck into the editing room at the University of North Texas to edit them to music I had also written myself.

It looks primitive today but in 1989 it was so different from the scratchy Super-8 films that students at UNT had been making that people were just gobsmacked.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Computer
• graphics
• techno
• Casio
• CZ-101
• University
• of
• North
• Texas
• AMIGA
• 1000
• ANIM
• MIDI
• Electronic
• Dallas
• Animation
• Computer Graphics
• Cartoon
• Animated
• Experimental
• Ambient

[speewave]

primitive but really cool, especially for the late 80s, consumer\prosumer stuff

the music is awesome too!

[djtowo]

Awsome to see