3D Animation in the 1990s. It was a thing.

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Hold and Modify

Күн бұрын

Amiga made it all possible.
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@mattperson7293 Ай бұрын

A knew of a guy while I was in college that made so much money making spinning logos for TV that he managed to buy his house in cash. He was next to useless doing anything else, just spinning shiny logos through the 90s.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

Yup! Flying logo biz was huge back then.

@the_omg3242 Ай бұрын

I remember one time when I had a friend over and we were looking at some stuff I'd done with Imagine and there was some clip on one of the local TV station advertising the auto section of the Buy & Sell paper that had obviously been done in Videoscape. I remember laughing and saying that even really crappy 3D could make it onto TV when he told me he did that one and he made pretty decent money on it for the money involved. He upgraded to Imagine, then bought a Toaster for Lightwave and finally spent about $25k for a used SGI machine and a copy of Vertigo. He did more animations after that and ended up moving and doing customer support for Vertigo.

@manueljesus3147 28 күн бұрын

@@HoldandModifyfor a time I was yhe local exploding logo guy after purchasing the pyroania stock footage CD

@alpaykasal2902 29 күн бұрын

Turbo Silver and Imagine guy myself. I still use IFW (Imagine for windows) for quick stuff... amazing how the keystrokes are still native to my hands all these years later.

@wimwiddershins Ай бұрын

I was using 3ds max around 1996, rendering tech evolved at a pace in the 1990s.

@michaelconroy315 Ай бұрын

same here

@KineticEgg Ай бұрын

To think I used this version of Lightwave and 4D Animate on the Amiga in actual production.. Things sure changed rapidly after '97.. but man I can still remember the shortcuts, how to Lscript and still have my tricked out Amiga 4000 from work here.. nice vid.

@jimsteele9261 Ай бұрын

One of our customers had the Personal Animation Recorder board for his Amiga. He could playback Lightwave renders in real time. Although using Rend24 to convert 24bit frames to HAM-8 on aga machines was pretty good.

@mikedefoy Ай бұрын

Loved my PAR card, pre-Flyer

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

yeah we sold sold some of those. I used Rend24 for quite a while. i borrowed a friends PAR to make one of my first demo reels though.

@mikedefoy Ай бұрын

@@HoldandModify cleaning out, I did find some first Lightwave stuff. I'm publicly accessible, so that footage is available upon request. As a filmmaker I was incorporating other elements like puppets, stop motion, etc. with Lightwave and of course subsequent digital compositing, all aiming for possible future syndication. Had bought many DVDs with image sequences like different explosions, various fire bursts, etc. all shot on black so...yeah. Like a kid in a candy store...ran with it. Sky was the limit. In the mid 90's, on an Amiga computer, it was not only possible to "make it work" on screen, but it was also possible to make those visual effects extraordinary, wowing the viewer. Lightwave can do it all, and I exploited it as much as possible to my advantage. Just make sure you're present during an actual shoot so you can take all your camera and light placement dimensional measurements, still photos, etc. so your animation matches exactly for exceptional, seamless, jaw dropping integration.

@SumNumber Ай бұрын

I believe at the time I was deep into Blender and could not stretch my brain any farther so that is why I never heard of this . Cool. Kai had a 3D render program as well at the time. Not bad for a 3D program but took 10 commercials and 20 coffee breaks to get one image rendered. Thanks for the share. :O)

@1robhook Ай бұрын

I used to use Turbo Silver. Couldn't afford Sculpt 3D. This was on a early A500.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

A lot of folks got their start with TS.

@DarrenJCrawford Ай бұрын

I, like a lot of people who used Lightwave didn't make a million dollars using it, we just had fun. Mine came with the NewTek Video Toaster and was installed in my A2000.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

And mine was a crack of LightRave! :)

@1robhook Ай бұрын

When I was in middle school and looking at buying an Amiga, and hanging out at Waldorf computers in Alexandria, VA, there was a high-school guy who had written his own 3D modelling program. It was REALLY impressive. I remember he was showing the "lathe" tool he had created for it. I remember he had long hair and an Asian girlfriend. I've always wondered what happened to him.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

The dude is probably living big! heh

@PHSPictures Ай бұрын

He went on to create DOOM.

@LinuxRenaissance Ай бұрын

This is amazing.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

truly.

@boydpukalo8980 Ай бұрын

I keep waiting for you to open and render the Seaquest intro! Meanwhile back in the 1990's in college I was using SDRC Ideas and Unigraphics and never once saw an Amiga on campus, nor in ANY computer stores sadly. Commodore burned bridges with resellers. Way to go Commodore management.

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

That’s a bummer. yeah it was rare to see them in schools. CalArts had some, briefly.

@SledgeFox Ай бұрын

The Lightwave modeler was so much better and advanced than the one in Imagine 4.0, very interesting to see, thank you very much!

@homborgor Ай бұрын

I have no idea why youtube recommend this other than the fact I'm a blender user. Loved every minute of it though and now really wanna use lightwave

@HoldandModify 29 күн бұрын

The true secret of LW marketing! Lol

@Snowcrash777 Ай бұрын

In 95 I was doing subcontractor work with Lightwave at Proper Effects in Culver City on a movie and I built a 3d model for Star Trek. They did most of the costume props and weapons for Star Trek so you may have heard of them. Isn't that around the time you were working on Voyager?

@HoldandModify Ай бұрын

I didn’t get to La until Jan ‘97 era.

@Snowcrash777 27 күн бұрын

@@HoldandModify A year after I left then. I hated working in the movie industry. Thier "Pyramid" can get bent. I grew up in Ventura just north of LA and commuted the 45 minute (2 and half hours in LA traffic time). I made IMDB and turned down a position as the lead in the new Proper Effects Digital Studio they offered me when I was told it would be up to 3 years before my name made the credits instead of just "Proper Efects Digital".

@HoldandModify 27 күн бұрын

@@Snowcrash777 Yikes