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In article <22607@gryphon.COM> jandreas@pnet02.gryphon.com (Jason Andreas) writes:
>macintosh version of SA4D as of yet doesn't have Animation capabilities like
>the amiga version, but i  was told E. Graham  was working on this,  along with
>texturing.

Are you sure the Mac version doesn't do animation?  At SIGGRAPH, they were
implying that it did.  Especially when they showed the CrackFish animation
and claimed it was rendered on a Mac.  I heard from other people that it
was actually rendered on an Amiga with a Targa board.

> JourneyMan is great, plus a few of the 7 modules are shipping NOW!

I should clarify this a little.  Journeyman is VERY close, but it is not
shipping yet.  It will be available as a complete package this Spring.
Like our Apprentice package, it's modular, i.e. the modeling, action design,
choreographing, and rendering are different executables.  In Journeyman
they are called Sculpture, Direction, Character, Action, and Render.  All
the modules except for Action are about to go into Beta testing.  

We are making the Beta modules available to Apprentice owners so we can
get more feedback, and so they can play with this new technology right
away.  The people to buy the early modules get the whole package for free
when it comes out.  The way things are going, you may not need Apprentice
to use the Beta version (we have more code done than we forsaw).

Journeyman is really a breakthrough in character animation technology on
the computer.  And, yes, it's 24-bit.  You can render any Amiga resolution,
and we plan to support as many frame buffers as we can get our hands on.
We also plan to support the Univ. of Lowell Hires Board, since it's
ideal for animation.

>The digital animation production's board is great if we can just get some real
>software running.

We'd support it if they sent us one.  We've talked with them many times about
it.

> I would take a serious look  in to The JourneyMan by  Hash Enterprises

Thanks for the endorsement!  Did you see Journeyman at SIGGRAPH?

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