Hello all Amiga enthusiasts,

I hope you  like the short  animation.  Sorry it's  in a small window but I
found
that the full screen  version had  trouble  running  at  speed  on 
unaccelerated
machines. The animation shows Horace and his wife, Granny Bodkin, walking
through
a prehistoric setting. 

This scene is from an 8 minute pilot episode  for a proposed  children's
animated
series   called   'Horace & The Magic Motorcycle'   made  several  years  ago 
by
Kevan Goode  and  myself on 16mm film. Unfortunately, we had to refuse a
contract
to  complete  the series  as  we felt we were being, well,  ripped off
basically!
As I have been working on  other things I  haven't  promoted 'Horace' as  much
as
I should have. If there are any Amigans out there with money to put into a
series
then PLEASE GET IN TOUCH !     

Anyway,  back  to  the  animation  -  my  main  reason  for  producing this
short
effort was to see if I could recreate a scene from the film, which was 
obviously 
done in the traditional way  with cels,  using  the Amiga. The original
animation
drawings were scanned into the  Amiga and  painted  in  Brilliance.  The 
panning 
background  was  created in  DPaintV and merged with the animation of the
walking
characters.  If we  were to complete the series now  it would probably be
created
entirely on the Amiga.

By the way,the animation is freely distributable as long as this text is
included
with  it  but  the  characters  and  title   'Horace & The Magic Motorcycle'
are,
ofcourse, copyright. 

Keep on animating. 


      All the best,

      Dale Hemenway.

      Dalemation
      18 Sneyd Hall Road,
      Bloxwich,
      Walsall,
      West Midlands.
      WS3 2NP
      ENGLAND

     Tel. (01922) 479656 

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[generic]               746586 1019264  73.2% -lh5- 6b94 Aug 22  1996 Horace&GrannyWalkSmall
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[generic]                  956    1760  54.3% -lh5- e9ff Sep 23  1996 Read_Me
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