1981 Mainframe Computer Animation. Coventry University

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This is my computer animated short from 1981. You could do this with Flash these days in an afternoon... but back then... It involved working out the X and Y coordinates to start and end points ... then I had to punch loads of data cards with the relevant binary code and then submit cards to computer dept , who then (having waited a week) output the relevant start, inbetween and end points as a series of dot matrix prints.. these I then made negative films of, back lit with a cyan gel, put on a rostrum camera and then did 25 frames a second stop frame animation on 16mm film. So much work !!! This was light years ahead of Tron!!! The music was done on a Wasp synthesizer and slowed to half speed on a Revox A77 tape deck and bounced to add reverb.

Keywords

Computer Animation, Coventry University, Lanchester Polytechnic, Graphic Design, Greg Marshall

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