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INSIDE VIEW The Designers Behind The Designers Behind MovieMaker Kathy Yakal, Editorial Assistant V Guy Nouri and Eric Podeitz (second and third from left, second rmv back) and other staff members of Inter active Picture Systems, Electronic construction sets—programs which allow non-programmers to design games or programs—are finding their niche in the software market. Bill Budge pioneered this new genre with Pinbnll Construction Set. Now there's MovieMaker, recently re leased by Reston Publishing for the Com modore 64, which turns your computer into an animation studio. 10 40 COMPUTE'S COMPUTEr, <strong>Gazette</strong> G.tu/r!l September Sep1ember 1984 1964
Coming in for a Imlding: tllese three Coming in for a landing: these three frames are part of all an Qllimaled animated seqUeIlce quence created with MovieMaker. About the time that the early filmmakers were struggling to combine About the time that the struggling to combine sound and moving pic· tures, i1 a young man named Walt Disney-using Disney—using techniques that had been discovered in the mid had been discovered in the midnineteenth century-began century—began producing animated cartoons. Free of the restrictions of reality that bound and frustrated motion picture makers, Disney sought to create his own imaginary characters and worlds. Creating cartoons in those days was slow, painstaking work. It involved drawing many, many versions of a particular scene, each just a fraction of a second later in the action, then "flipping" them very rapidly to offer the illusion of motion. What used to take professional animators weeks, even months to do-create do—create a short, animated sequence-can now animated sequence—can now be done by a novice in a few days, by using MovieMaker. MovieMnker. This package cannot trulyy be regarded as a traditional videogame. Guy Nouri, president and co-founder of Interac tive Picture Systems, says it was
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