Short: A little old 'loco' animation Author: Ragnar Fyri (ragnar.fyri@daf.no) Uploader: Ragnar Fyri (ragnar fyri daf no) Type: pix/anim Architecture: generic Causes and effects can form strange chains. The reason you are looking at this animation right now is that "everyone" on the YAM mailing list is using the same tagline file (that came with the program)! Well, that IS the ultimate reason. I decided to find something more original and suddenly remembered that i had a big tagline file on my old system. So after i had disconnected and partly dismantled the 1200 to clean it up a bit the other day, I put it to the side and set up the old 500+ to see if I could find the file. Thanks to the file searcher Cerca (the name means Search in Italian) finding the file only took a few minutes, and then I decided to look around a bit while I had the system running anyway. I found some old pictures and animations and decided to unleash them on the unsuspecting world, and Loco.anim is one of those. The file date on the original animation is Aoril 27, 1997, but the animbrushes which are also enclosed here are from June 5, 199, so it looks like I have been working on this little animation for quite a while! The animation file found here is newer because I decided to brighten the palette and clean up some stray pixels. So at the end of the day this took about five years to finish. ;) To get a bit more on topic, as far as I can remember I made this animation to see if I could animate the crank and piston (or whatever they are called) convincingly. Look good, don't they? ;) The smoke (which is synchronised with the piston btw), the driver's scarf (just a series of random squiggles filled with color but they look good too...) and the water drops on the pipes (yes, that is what they are supposed to be...) were added later to make the picture look less static. The letters IAR WS on the driver's booth don't mean anything special, I just picked some letters more or less at random. And okay, it doesn't really look like a particular real steam engine, but the Amiga is supposed to be a tool for the imagination, right? ;) Asker, June 1999 Ragnar Fyri ragnar.fyri@daf.no ICQ# 38891981