Talk:Scanimate

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Kittyinthetree in topic Accuracy

Stubbing

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I've flagged this article as a stub, due to there being very little to no hard data on what the process of Scanimation actually is, how it looks, or what analog technology is used. I was trying to find an incomplete market, couldn't find one, so feel free to modify it if you can find one. - MSTCrow 00:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Replaced with more appropriate boilerplate text. - MSTCrow 04:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

This page is linked to by the more general video synthesis page. I have inserted a return link near the beginning of this article. Perhaps someone with more technical knowledge can improve the content of these pages together. (I'm not an expert on this but I don't think real-time computer graphics is a good point of reference for this article, on even more general video synthesis article.) Theoh (talk) 22:03, 27 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Honda Odyssey

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I noticed some recent commercials for the Honda Odyssey minivan are using the song "We Want the Funk" while showing the animation in a Scanimate-esque style. Include? WAVY 10 14:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Accuracy

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There are some references in the article of questionable accuracy. I've removed the most egregious of them - The Jackson 5 "Blame It on the Boogie" music video was almost certainly not done on a Scanimate - it couldn't do motion trails from video, since Scanimate had no memory! Most likely, one of the first Quantel devices was used. I'd recommend removing "Let's Groove" as well, but there are many effects in there, so who knows, maybe Scanimate got used at some point, though it's unlikely. Tom S. (talk) 04:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

"Let's Groove" is Scanimate. "Blame It on the Boogie" used the Scanimate colorizer and (you are correct) the Quantel DFS 3000 for motion trails. [1][2] Kittyinthetree (talk) 14:51, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "Image West Scanimate Demo 15B". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Dave Sieg's comments". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2010. While I worked at Image West, we did a number of effects using a Quantel 3000 framestore to create "trails", including this Michael Jackson video, "Blame it on the Boogie". This is from my archives of work from that era.

Images

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This is a tantalising article on a now vintage video animation system which I discovered in researching the British artist Michael Nicholson (still working on a WP bio). What would make the article much more effective and informative would be to include some video, or stills, please! Jamesmcardle(talk) 08:24, 30 September 2020 (UTC)Reply