Wow! That was a trip. There was very much a "look" that all of those videos had. Some of it was technological, like the lack of animated shadows in most of the pieces. That was a problem in the...
Wow! That was a trip. There was very much a "look" that all of those videos had. Some of it was technological, like the lack of animated shadows in most of the pieces. That was a problem in the 80s when computers were so underpowered. But some of it just seemed to be aesthetic. The eye-popping color choices and the heavy use of repeating patterns, for example. (Although repeating patterns was also a technological issue, too, since you couldn't store or procedurally generate large patterns easily on the machines back then.)
I had to laugh when they referred to Jim Blinn as Dr. James Blinn. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Not sure if I should have posted this in ~comp or ~arts but it seems to focus slightly more on the aesthetics and general wonder of 80s era 3D animation than the raw tech. What I find fascinating...
Not sure if I should have posted this in ~comp or ~arts but it seems to focus slightly more on the aesthetics and general wonder of 80s era 3D animation than the raw tech.
What I find fascinating is how high quality the video video is! Usually you only see this stuff on cam footage of a screen playing a VHS tape. This is near perfect quality, probably close to how it was stored for production.
That’s laserdisc for you. There is a reason why it’s so collectible vs other formats of the day. It may have been an analog format, but it offered much better quality playback.
That’s laserdisc for you. There is a reason why it’s so collectible vs other formats of the day. It may have been an analog format, but it offered much better quality playback.
Wow! That was a trip. There was very much a "look" that all of those videos had. Some of it was technological, like the lack of animated shadows in most of the pieces. That was a problem in the 80s when computers were so underpowered. But some of it just seemed to be aesthetic. The eye-popping color choices and the heavy use of repeating patterns, for example. (Although repeating patterns was also a technological issue, too, since you couldn't store or procedurally generate large patterns easily on the machines back then.)
I had to laugh when they referred to Jim Blinn as Dr. James Blinn. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Not sure if I should have posted this in ~comp or ~arts but it seems to focus slightly more on the aesthetics and general wonder of 80s era 3D animation than the raw tech.
What I find fascinating is how high quality the video video is! Usually you only see this stuff on cam footage of a screen playing a VHS tape. This is near perfect quality, probably close to how it was stored for production.
That’s laserdisc for you. There is a reason why it’s so collectible vs other formats of the day. It may have been an analog format, but it offered much better quality playback.