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Amazing Apple IIe stop-motion animation

submitted by gaffa

1 decade 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago

1984 computer animation on an Apple //e. As described in Cinemagic Magazine #23 and Computer Animation Primer:

The graphics are way beyond the capability of the computer to render in real time, so he used stop-motion. To film it he actually had the computer control a film camera and a wheel of colored filters. The computer would render a frame, spin the color wheel (made from an old record with holes cut in it) then open the shutter, repeating for each color and frame. It took about 2 minutes per frame but the results are awesome.

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I was wondering about the color for a minute there, since it was producing colors that I wouldn't deem it capable of in normal hi-res mode (white, black, green, purple, orange, blue). Also, green and purple couldn't be within the same byte (7 pixels) as an orange and blue (the infamous stairstepping syndrome).

It looks like it was made in 1984 according to the title screen.

Leader Animation by James S. Leatham Copyright 1984

Howdy!
I made the //e film over 20 years ago.
A magazine article about it is at flickr.com at my photos page.
jsl151850b
See my other YouTubes. Same user name.
keefer... the colors you mentioned are seen in the "Fire Organ" videos.

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