Short: Cool bee animation (short version) Author: dale@active2.demon.co.uk (Dale Hemmenway) Uploader: chris@active2.demon.co.uk (Chris Wiles) Type: pix/anim Hello all Amiga enthusiasts, This animation was created in order to test out the program 'CartoonStudio' by Marco Vigelius that was featured on Amiga Format CD 4 which allows sound samples to be easily assigned to any frame in an animation. I was so impressed with it that I immediately sent off my registration fee to Marco in The Netherlands and within a week had received the latest version - and a nice letter! Okay, so Marco admits it's slow to use in some parts but for £5 it's a bargain and I'm no programmer so not in a position to criticise! The new version allows Hi Res animations in 16 colours to be loaded whereas the CD version only allowed the use of Low Res anims in 32 colours. However, the lack of colours is made up for by the fact that you can now use no less than 50 different colour palettes within an animation! You may have noticed that there are two 'Bee' animations featured here. 'BeeAnim' is the short original animation that I did for a laugh when I first tested out my Vidi Amiga digitiser a couple of years ago. I never expected anyone else to ever see it! 'BeeAnim32Col'is a much longer version of the above that I created in order to try CartoonStudio's sound features.If you don't have enough memory to run the second you should be able to run the first. The animation runs at only 7 frames per second as I thought this added to the pixelated (ie; animated live action ) technique. The animation was done in Low Res using Brilliance2 and DPaint5 and drawn with the mouse! Most of the sound effects were taken from the Weird Science 'Sounds Terrific' CD with additional samples being obtained using TechnoSound Turbo II. As previously mentioned, the live action stills were recorded using a Vidi Amiga 12 digitiser and a video camera. I hope you enjoy it! Keep on animating. All the best, Dale Hemenway. Dalemation 18 Sneyd Hall Road, Bloxwich, Walsall, West Midlands. WS3 2NP Tel. (01922) 479656 ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 36222 28807 20.4% 03-Aug-80 03:08:56 beat0112.snd 765 316 58.6% 03-Sep-96 12:07:10 Bee_Anim 2236 1342 39.9% 24-Sep-96 00:31:54 Bee_Anim.info 529088 331723 37.3% 18-Sep-96 00:21:30 BeeAnim 570 223 60.8% 24-Sep-96 00:31:56 BeeAnim.info 32834 13053 60.2% 21-Apr-80 01:48:22 bees.snd 73112 36252 50.4% 17-Sep-96 11:40:22 CartoonPlayer 2240 1439 35.7% 24-Sep-96 00:31:56 CartoonPlayer.info 8964 6051 32.4% 01-Sep-96 07:07:06 DAahh 6612 4863 26.4% 01-Sep-96 07:07:48 DGulph 22740 15173 33.2% 01-Sep-96 07:09:14 DHmmHmmm 14612 9757 33.2% 01-Sep-96 07:08:38 DHmmmmm 40296 22598 43.9% 08-Jun-93 09:04:36 +asl.library 4280 2486 41.9% 18-Jan-80 11:11:18 +mathtrans.library 2067 1094 47.0% 07-Jan-80 00:16:52 READ_ME 6412 408 93.6% 24-Sep-96 00:31:56 READ_ME.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 783050 475585 39.2% 20-Oct-96 20:44:46 16 files