One, I can’t tell you how badly I wanted to do computer animation in my youth. An Apple IIgs ad featuring a rocket blasting off nearly made my head blast off. Two, it’s hard to imagine that the app below predated Flash by just five years (FutureSplash by less).
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On a related note, I was struck by David Pogue noting today, “Think of all the commonplace tech that didn’t even exist 10 years ago: HDTV, Blu-ray, GPS, Wi-Fi, Gmail, YouTube, iPod, iPhone, Kindle, Xbox, Wii, Facebook, Twitter, Android, online music stores, streaming movies and on and on.”
Previously: Old-school imaging: Warhol on the Amiga.
Think of all the jobs and careers that did not exist then too!
How many of us are doing jobs that flat did not exist when we were in school?
Happy memories, not just of early animation programs but also of the Amiga and Computer Chronicles. I like that he says they’re coloring in the cels one by one because that’s the way traditional animators do it–as if they had any chance of developing software that would have been able to figure out which areas should be colored similarly from one frame to the next.
I loved that show!!
Autodesk Animator was my first animation program, I think it’s from 1989.
I had that software when it first came out, a great package that actually made animation easy. I figured I was well on my way to Disney for my true calling.
I’m a photographer now.
The 90’s were tough, LOL…
Ahem. We had GPS in the 90’s. Maybe not with all the fancy maps, but at least with this level of functionality…
News flash to David Pogue, whose reporting I enjoy. We not only had GPS 10 years ago, I was using it to fly an airplane seven years before that. We little plane pilots had GPS receivers, available on the market and cloned from GPS units meant for land travel but with aviation waypoints in 1991. The FAA administrator said this year that the marvels of GPS are coming. I asked him if there was something newer than what I already know about. He said no, I and other GA pilots were “early adopters.” But 17 years? That’s a “long time ago” adopter, not an early one.
[Yeah, I know, and HDTV has been around for years, too, but I took his point to be “widespread use of XYZ…” –J.]
Yeah, I was making HDTV animations back in 1990.
But only NHK had the facilities to work with it.
I got my start in animation with Deluxe Paint on the Tandy 3000. I think it was out by at least 1989 and the resolution was 640×480 256 colors.
[Yeah, and I got my start on an Etch-a-Sketch Animator. And “We were evicted from our ‘ole in the ground; we ‘ad to go and live in a lake!” 🙂 –J.]
Oh yeah…Etch-a-Sletch Animator…I loved my dancing skeleton guy!