This animation has its story. It was hand drawn by Vladimir Barreto, Ruthceleny
Neuville, Atilio Fini, Carlos Reyes and (of course) me, when i was the chief
of the networking team at Inelectra (Caracas, Venezuela). All of us where part
of the crew and contributed as much as we could to the final work ... using ... PCs.
This happened when the first VGA color monitors where arriving to the company and
being connected to the ethernet network. We decided to surprise everyone and
installed the animation to be run from the login script of the Novell network servers
so it was automatically displayed whenever someone logged in to the network. At that
time, everybody was worried about the dangerouse viruses that menaced their files and
machines, that's why the 'operator's pet' called by us 'Operito', sticks its head out
from the border of the screen and then jumps into action, to scare the viewer. After
that, it says "no se asuste, no soy un virus" = "don't be afraid, i'm not a virus",
but the shock was already started !
... ho ho ho ...
The first day of the 'presentation', early in the morning, you could hear the big
laughs coming from everywhere there was a color monitor. People run from their
work places to see the unexpected spectacle. But the real spectacle (for us) was
seeing all of them with their radiant faces. Something rarely seen in the company's
atmosphere.
So, that was a merrier Christmas.
The color was, by then, a novelty in the pc universe. People didn't know the Amiga.
... more ho ho ho ... but i did.
Now, the technical note:
This animation was hand drawn using the pc ancient Animator package.
Original resolution: 320x200
Colors: 256
Suggested playing speed: 10 FPS
I converted the original Animator file to IFF frames on the Amiga, and then, using
Art Deparmet Professional, reassembled an ANIM5 animation. After that, a MPEG version
was necessary for multiplatform porting, so i made it.
You can find the original animation ANIM5 at Aminet pix/anim/Operito1.lha
And the MPEG-1 stream at Aminet pix/mpg/Operito2.mpg
If you own an Amiga, get the ANIM5. It is of much better quality than the MPEG.
Enjoy it.
If you play this anim, i would like to hear from you. Just send me an email.
Other anim i produced: at Aminet pix/mpg/SuperFlight.mpg
pix/mpg/PlanetusTales1.mpg
pix/anim/PlanetusTales.lha (ANIM5)
If you like my work and you are looking for professional animations for commercial
use, PLEASE contact me !!! I'm suffering of an ADC desease and need the money.
I can produce VHS, Hi8, and CD-R/RW (data and/or audio) formats. Professional
analog and digital audio and video processing, 8 and Super8 mm film conversion,
old plastic longplay disks conversion, etc.
My address:
Tomás García Méndez
Calle B, edif. Koral, piso 7, APTO 7-A,
Santa Rosa de Lima, Caracas,
Venezuela.
TEL: 92-23-49
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Hardware: Amiga 4000 with CyberStorm 060/50Mhz & 82 MB RAM
1.3 Gb IDE + 3.2 Gb IDE internal hard drives
DPS TBC-IV NTSC Time Base Corrector
DPS PAR NTSC Personal Animation Recorder with additional 4.5 Gb HDs
Delfina Lite DPS
Ricoh CD-RW MP6200S
2 x Sony Visca Computer Decks (Hi8)
Sony SLV-920HF HiFi Stereo VHS
Panasonic Multi Laser Disk Player LX-101
Sony SL-2400 Betamax
Bohem JMX-690 Pro Mixer & Equalizer
ADC Sound Shaper Three Paragraphic Stereo 12 bands Equalizer
Sansui SC-5330 Stereo Casette Deck
Sansui AU-919 Super Fidelity DD/DC Amplifier
Home made UltraBig Sonotronic Speakers
soon: More disk and a Microtek ScanMaker X6EL scanner
Software used: pc Animator (original animation) simple animation soft
Amiga ADPro
Amiga EASY_Mpeg and MPEG_Encode (from Aminet)
Other Amiga AREXX scripts, home written
Time spent: drawing: a week, part time, collaborative effort +-
A few minutes on the Amiga to convert Animator file to frames.
More few minutes to assemble the ANIM5 Amiga animation.
Much more few minutes to generate the MPEG stream.
Enjoyment: of course, A LOT !
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