@database CHASE
@author "Simon Brewer"
@$VER: 1.0 (24.03.97)
@node MAIN "<CHASE> Demonstration Animations"

@{b}< C H A S E > Demonstration Animations
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@{b}Created by Simon Brewer@{ub}

These animations are a small sample of my work for my Final Major Project at Harlow College.

For this project I was allowed to make a short film and, being a sci-fi fan, I of course chose
to make a sci-fi film!

The film is called CHASE, and follows the attempts of some space pirates to grab a trader's 
valuable cargo. Obviously, not having access to expensive motion control cameras and models, I had
find a way to come up with the effects myself.

Being a dedicated Amiga devotee, I jumped at the chance to use LightWave and to hopefully show 
the Apple Mac-lovin' college students the power of the AMIGA!

All the visual effects in CHASE have been created using LightWave, Imagine, Deluxe Paint and 
MainActor.  There is 1.6 gigabytes of animated footage, and around 400,000 polygons worth
of models for the film.  Actors have been filmed using bluescreen techniques and then slotted
into Virtual Sets in LightWave.
The live-action and rendered footage was  then be edited together on video with sound effects 
to create the final film.

Hopefully it might inspire the Principle to dig deep and buy some A4000s and LightWave for the 
college!


@{b}Running the Animations@{ub}

These are BIG anims and are in HAM8 Hi-Res interlaced for best quality to video.  They are set up to 
load Viewtek from C: and run just by clicking on their icons.
Viewtek will run these from the CD-ROM if you don't have enough memory to load them in at once, 
but you will have to experiment with the 'Buffer_Size' tool-type.  Otherwise, you may need BigAnim 
(On the GFX Sensations CD, or Aminet probably) to run them.  Also, go to your Prefs/Icontrol and 
make sure Mode Promotion is Off, as this will speed up the display. Try changing your screen mode to 
2 colour low-res or something to free up as much chip ram as possible if you still have problems.

I hope that you can run them and enjoy them!

I would appreciate any comments about my work.


@{b}LEGAL NOTICE@{ub}

@{fg highlight}These animations are NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN and MAY NOT UNDER ANY 
CIRCUMSTANCES BE DISTRIBUTED TO AMINET, THE INTERNET OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE 
LIBRARY. ONLY AMIGA FORMAT MAGAZINE HAS CURRENTLY PERMISSION TO DISTRIBUTE 
THESE ANIMATIONS VIA THEIR CD-ROM EDITION.@{fg text}

CHASE, the animations and the model designs are © Simon Brewer 1996-1997, and may not be used 
for any other project without written permission.


Simon Brewer

Tel/Fax 01279 434533
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