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omputer 2D animation has been having a rough lime of it over the last few years. After the eye candy niceties of LightWave, Wavefront and 3D Studio and its professional users. 2D is seen as something from the past that should remain there indefinitely unless produced by Disney. There's no les flare. no 2.400 lights illuminating the undercarriage of a space freight and no 30 chases through 24-bit deep space. freed. computer animation is inherently seen as a 3D format of polygons, ditmapped textures and splining because the medium lends itself so well to the genre and for the last few years has been seen as the best option for achieving the ercessible. The likes of Jurassic Park and Lawnmower Man to Babylon 5 and SetiOuest DSV have created a myopic view of computer's potential throughout all alas of silicon art. After this initial flux of enthusiasm In one area, it's now becoming more apparent that artists and animators from all weiliz of life are finding ways of turning the 30 legacy into something else far, far removed Amiga Computing thought it was time to tin the spotlight on the unsung heroines it heroes who are making real waves in the animation scene to ask them what makes their Amiga such a vital comporeit in the production process, and what techniques they use to turn the ordinary efe the extraordinary , An anim for all 5Pa50115 O Judging from the media, it rwears that there are two distinctive ttraes. The commercial artist who's in it ipallor the money (to eat, clothe, live s id so on) and the individual artist t'hose work apparently shouldn't be s lunded because it only appeals to a hmnonly. While there are extreme cases aol stereotype in both areas that inflame vpublic contempt and do more damage e than good to the arts scene as a whole a tininess Camelot's award of E55 million n t the Royal Opera House and the sub- inewt backlash that has people mutmWring that money should be given solely to charities, never mind the Arts a g Crunch). many artists are genuinely try- e bg their best to bring something fresh, p vaginal and individualistic to the small r and big screens o Despite the supposed black-and- b inkte nature to the arts, the majority of people operating in the grey areas In l between are working in both arenas and e m creating original and exciting work sesultaneously. . Take Jonathan Hodgson. He's been animating for the past 15 years using a variety of media. His commercials rude SAAB. Kilmeaden Cheddar and FEATURE Four animator5 and an Amiga program 'biros for While Heat (BBC1), Kersplat (Channel 4), Nelson Mandela (Channel 4) and Classic Trucks (Channel 4 ) . Originally an illustrator, Hodgson came across animation while studying at Liverpool arts school and decided that the moving image was tar more interesting. As with many art schools, the slant was very much on the experimental - a tradition that Hodgson still swears by today. He had his first introduction to computers, specifically the Amiga, only a year ago when he applied to the arts council for funding for a short experimental animation that'll be screened as part of the FourMations series on its completion. Since that time, the computer has become a vital part of his animation process. He has since produced an intro animation for Channel Four's Classic Trucks series (detailed below). MENTAL GRAFFITI Meanwhile. Hodgson continues to work on his animation. Described as 'mental graffiti', using a variety of different medias from charcoal to video, the basic theme behind the film is what goes on inside someone's head while doing something as mundane as walking to work. The Amiga is being used as a vital part of the production with the now famous PARcard taking centre stage for lifter looking at 311 animation in fia5t 1 8rt15t5 . who dal making llmiga animated art 5 the management and playback of all 5 Images (detailed below). So impressed is Hodgson with the 1 Amiga that he's planning to produce another film created solely on the 1 machine. The appeal of using the Amiga is the speed of adding a variety of 0 effects: "You can turn a photographic image into an outline image within sec- , onds. Also, the potential for the likes of morphing is very exciting" commented N Hodgson. "While uses so far have been very a obvious, there's lots of stuff yet to be m P Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995 57
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