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Geek Culture / 20 Years Ago!! ...animation was hard...

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JLMoondog
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 16:59
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I've recently been clearing out my house getting it ready to sell when I come across a very strange box! *dun dun DUN*

I open it with anticipation to find an assortment of CD's. Some marked, some un-marked. Then I come across two discs dating back to the 90's!!

Each one had a short animation on them. These were two of the first animations I've ever completed and now I felt the need to share them with the world!!

First one is called "Footprint". A sci-fi story with a twist ending! This was done in a program called Ray Dreams 3D and took about 1 month to produce.


The second animation is the opening cinematic for FLYER. A DBC RTS game that I was building media for back in the day. This one is only about 11 years old but it's one of the first animations I completed in 3DS Max R3.



Can't wait to dig through the rest of the CD's. I'm hoping to find an animation of the Mar's Lander I did. It started with the rocket launch and ended with it's crash landing on Mars. That was the second animation I'd ever completed in Ray Dreams 3D.

Enjoy guys!

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 17:40
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haha, nice! I recently found a box of floppy disks that'll be a similar age. Unfortunately I don't have a floppy drive anymore so I don't know what's on them yet!

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Virtual Nomad
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 04:53
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i thinks its proper that you redo/update the animations and share. just to see what the past 20 yrs has done for you

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 06:35 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 06:35
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Quote: "I've recently been clearing out my house getting it ready to sell when I come across a very strange box! *dun dun DUN*"

I might be the only one, but my immediate response to just that is "Wait, how'd you get past Pinhead? You're not a cenobite now, are you? People: don't buy his house; it's a trap!"

I watch lots of horror movies.

More seriously though, I have an array of discs (back before I discovered external hard drives) which I stored some of the stuff I thought I'd never want to lose. If I find those discs again, I'll be throwing them out, lol.

Cheers,
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Errant AI
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 14:15
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Nice! You're lucky to have burned CDs. My old files are stuck on 100MB zip disks... I suppose that's not as bad as being stuck on SyQuest or Bernoulli though.
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JLMoondog
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Lol. I remember zip discs, before cd's that was the cool way to store data. I actually found some tape discs too along with a tape drive. I'm thinking about getting the old 386 out and plugging in the tape drive to see whats on them.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 21:39
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Quote: "My old files are stuck on 100MB zip disks"


Would you like me to send you my old zip drive?

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 08:27
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You've inspired me to upload the very first animation I did from start to scratch back in '99. Yah the animation is jerky but I worked really hard on synchronizing the song, which I wrote.




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Dark Frager
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 10:39
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I find that video surprisingly amusing.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 14:45
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Man you guys had real childhoods...

Envious Josh, amazing work you do!

keep it up!

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Jeku
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Quote: "I find that video surprisingly amusing."


Crazy art school deadline and not enough hours in the day to work with. And I suck at all things graphic art related! Of course I would have loved to have gone back and fixed all the weirdness, but I lost the original files.


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