Retro CGI On Amiga Will Blow Your Mind!

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  • @SirMo
    @SirMo2 ай бұрын

    The dude (Jenshi) made free models and posted them in 1994. Before the Web which was invented a year later. So someone must have used Gopher or BBS to get the files. Crazy to think about how cool that was, at least to me, who remembers those early days of the Internet before the World Wide Web, which we all just call the Internet today.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    dude thats awesome. thank you for the history

  • @nattsurfaren
    @nattsurfaren2 ай бұрын

    When Amiga was released it was about 10 year ahead of Windows. Multitasking just blew my mind. Windows halted and lagged while formatting a hard drive. While on Amiga formatting a disk and processing stuff in the background while playing with deluxe paint was no problem.

  • @MrVainSCL
    @MrVainSCL2 ай бұрын

    The TV serie SeaQuest has really blown away my mind, when i saw the movie intro and CGI sequences - all created with Amiga!

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah show and intro was a big one back then. just wow!

  • @brucoder
    @brucoder2 ай бұрын

    An earlier set of tools were DKBTrace/POV-Ray, Sculpt3D, and Forms in Flight. It was amazing what we could force onto an 800KB floppy.

  • @chelfyn
    @chelfyn2 ай бұрын

    Imagine 2.0 was my first foray into 3D as well. Here I am 30 years in the industry, currently moving my workflow over to unreal engine. Like all the amiga users I knew, I spent a lot of time on Lightwave. Lightwave was awesome.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Unreal is the solid bet. i’m still in LW. i’ll be the last man standing i suspect. ;)

  • @20windfisch11
    @20windfisch112 ай бұрын

    Also used Imagine a lot. It was part of our “poor man’s Video Toaster” setup in the computer club. A heavily upgraded A2000 for the time (030/25/68882, 6MiB, SCSI HDD 120MiB), DVE-10p Genlock, two SVHS recorders, manual AV mixer and Scala MM200, DPaint IV, AdPro and Imagine 2.0. I later was allowed to take this whole setup home when we started using DV cameras, PCs and Adobe Premiere. I edited my home videos until 2001 with this. I played around with Real3D as well and 3DS Max on the PC but I found that Imaging was most intuitive to me. The workflow appealed to me as it was divided into the separate editors. 6 MiB of RAM weren’t much even by the standards then but it was usually enough to do intro animations and some nice effects.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you SO MUCH for sharing some of your history! I love reading this stuff. (hope others do too)

  • @WDeranged
    @WDeranged2 ай бұрын

    I got Imagine 2.0 on a coverdisk as a kid. I was completely obsessed. I made cars, animals, fruit, planets and a rather detailed starship Enterprise. I even paid to upgrade to Imagine 3.0 so I could use the inverse kinematics. I never really figured out how to use it though.

  • @vertigoz

    @vertigoz

    2 ай бұрын

    Me too! I also bought Imagine 3D 3 also

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I think we all made an attempt at making a Star Trek ship. I know I did.

  • @SledgeFox

    @SledgeFox

    2 ай бұрын

    👍 good old times!

  • @jimbotron70

    @jimbotron70

    2 ай бұрын

    The good old Amiga Format days 😊

  • @vertigoz

    @vertigoz

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jimbotron70 cu amiga later gave away the version 4 of imagine 3d

  • @cullmaster7361
    @cullmaster73612 ай бұрын

    Great Vid “Q” 👍🏻 I always liked CGI. I remember seeing the Last Starfighter back in ‘84 and what had to be done just to bring the spacecraft such as the Gunstar with the Cray II Super Computer. Fast forward a few years and the Amiga could do nearly the same with B5. 🤯 Thanks for the quick DOPUS tutorial 😉

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Last Starfighter, Tron, had me JONSING for a computer that could do such a thing!

  • @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343
    @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc53432 ай бұрын

    There were typically two versions of Imagine with each release. One was optimized for FPU and one was not.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah I see an Integer version too.

  • @boydpukalo8980
    @boydpukalo89802 ай бұрын

    It is really cool these 3D programs existed back then. We are soo spoiled these days with instantaneous rendering on GPU's with gigabytes of VRAM, and CPU's which mostly sit idle 99.9% of their life.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    i challenge myself now and then making stuff on my Amigas. I’ve made some videos on this channel about it it can be…..enjoyably frustrating.

  • @RCoryCollins
    @RCoryCollins2 ай бұрын

    I helped write the manual for when Imagine for Dos switched over to Imagine for Windows. I also owned one of their 3d digitizers that was run with a stripped down version of Imagine for Dos. Good times.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Dang dude!

  • @RCoryCollins

    @RCoryCollins

    2 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5mZtdWSYtLHm5s.htmlsi=9J7AvLUVbkd3SP0h @@HoldandModify We made this in 96 or 98, not so sure anymore. Imagine for windows, Light wave, premiere, and a personal animation controller the guys at impulse made and sold. It was in all the Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos nationwide. Good old days...lol

  • @SensibleChuckle
    @SensibleChuckle2 ай бұрын

    I had no idea until I saw the Imagine title screen... It was made in MN! (I grew up in MN.) I had a friend that recently retired from NASA that used Turbo Silver and later Imagine.

  • @MrThinlySliced
    @MrThinlySliced2 ай бұрын

    Started off with Sculpt 3d on the Amiga myself, then later the 4D, then Imagine. Was mind blowing at the time the results you could get from effectively a home computer. We all had no idea how things would change did we 🙂 Young - uns, this current era of AI generated stuff is only the beginning, it's going to be a wild ride from here. I hope I'm around to see some of it.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    The evolution of all things 3D related BLOWS MY MIND yearly. Heh

  • @Ponlets
    @Ponlets2 ай бұрын

    you sound alot like Jeff Bridges that and the fact you are doing an Amiga video really really fits :)

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    haha. I’ve heard this from others. That’s funny. I’m not trying to!

  • @preferredimage
    @preferredimage2 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I remember Imagine, videoscape 3D, Real 3D, Sculpt 4D and of course I settled on Lightwave. But I wish I'd kept hold of the floppy discs Tobias Richter sent me containing his 3D models of trek ships for videoscape...... Lost in the past somewhere. But that got me into 3D and Lightwave and I still use it now. Everything is better than Povray!

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I should ask him if he still has them. I remember watching his stuff from back then too.

  • @preferredimage

    @preferredimage

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify When I think back, it was pre-internet. pre-BBS at least for me. We were still swapping discs at meets and school. I posted a letter to Germany as a kid! Praising him for his excellent animations and said I'd wanted to try the same but didn't have any models.... I got a reply thanking me for my kind words and included some floppies containing many of those classic looking TOS era ships.... Tobias really did make a big deal out of his love of CGI!!

  • @shabazzy
    @shabazzy2 ай бұрын

    Back in the 90s, I cut my 3D teeth on Imagine and used it for at least 8 years (along with LightWave). After watching this video, I don't know how (or why) the heck I used it for as long as I did. 🤯

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    LOL. Yes!

  • @pixelatl
    @pixelatl2 ай бұрын

    My path started on my Atari 1040ST with Cad 3D and the entire Cyber suite. I then went to the Amiga and started with Sculpt 4D, then, Imagine 2.0, Cinema 4D, Aladin 4D, Real 3D, and finally Lightwave. After discovering Lightwave I never looked back. Then jumped to the PC and continued using Lightwave and still do today.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    That’s a great path you carved out! Tried them all!

  • @pixelatl

    @pixelatl

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify The PAR (Personal Animation Recorder) and the AD516 SunRize 16 soundcard other than Lightwave were my most important purchases.

  • @bblevins
    @bblevins2 ай бұрын

    I remember TS/Imagine. Using it was a hard lesson in waiting and disappointment. Before Imagine2 if you didn't add a light to your scene, it would happily render along in pitch black. Thank god Lightwave came around.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh my! Now I'm glad I never used Imagine 1.0.

  • @dragon3dnet
    @dragon3dnet2 ай бұрын

    I remember my first 3d animations I created back in 1994 was on an Amiga 4000 Video Toaster with Lightwave as part of a video production class in High School.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I wish I went to your High School! hah!

  • @karlwest437
    @karlwest4372 ай бұрын

    It looks primitive now, but back in the day, this was the best software available, and there were no internet tutorials, no KZread, nothing, you had to figure stuff out on your own, and the computers had no GPU, everything was done in software on a CPU that probably had less compute than a USB cable has today

  • @enilenis
    @enilenis2 ай бұрын

    Started doing graphics in 3D Studio R3, back when that came out. Then migrated into Max, then XSI, then Maya, and now Blender. Used Lightwave, Houdini and learning Blender also over the last 2 years. No package is best at everything. Sometimes it's good to mix things up. Blender is winning me over, because it's free and is becoming more Houdini-like. Has potential. Tried Unreal. Made some VR projects. Got bored. Went back to Blender. Worked professionally in Maya for about 20 years. Tried Softimage 3.8 back when that was around. Didn't enjoy it. Wrote data exporters for taking Lightwave projects into Maya. I remember making 3D on a 286 even before all that, but I can't recall the package. Only remember that rendering a single shaded lambert sphere took about 30 minutes.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Dude thank you so much for sharing your history, its one of the reasons I make these videos.

  • @carylittleford8980
    @carylittleford89802 ай бұрын

    Imagine was my fav gfx program for many years, had a blast animating and rendering, it became my main tool on PC after they ported it. Did some amazing billboard early photo real advertisements with it.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    That’s cool. You don’t often see stuff from Imagine. Amiga or PC. The program was a challenge for sure.

  • @slowlymakingsmoke
    @slowlymakingsmoke2 ай бұрын

    I loved Imagine. Us PAL users were left out in the cold for many years before we got LightWave. At least legally. I stuck with Imagine all the was onto the PC with Imagine 4.0 for DOS. The rendering speed was light years ahead of the Amiga. Never went to version 5 or the Windows versions as I had jumped ship to 3D Studio Max by then. Imagine definitely produced incredible images. The UI is older than LightWave for sure, but once you got used to it, it was fine. I have the disks, and I am sure there were extra folders for textures and effects. But that might be the later versions.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I think I stopped around 3.9. I never got to 4. Was DEEP in Lightwave lands by then.

  • @SledgeFox

    @SledgeFox

    2 ай бұрын

    Indeed there were extra disks with new procedural textures and demo pics and you could create your own procedural textures. It was amazing, what level of quality you could achieve with those and the great ray tracing quality. But render times went up. 😁 A pic with less than 10 lightsources was boring anyway... 🤡 I didn't care if a picture took many days in high resolutions... Multitasking for the win!

  • @MauroSanna
    @MauroSanna2 ай бұрын

    I used to use Turbosilver and Imagine, and I loved them! Great video! 🙂

  • @nedo68

    @nedo68

    2 ай бұрын

    haha same here! still have the book :D

  • @alexfurer
    @alexfurer2 ай бұрын

    Respect dude! To be honest, I don't know if I ever would have pursued 3D, if I did not start in Strata 3D on a Mac.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Ohhh Strata! Man. Forgot about that!

  • @SledgeFox
    @SledgeFox2 ай бұрын

    Now I feel old. I started with DBW-Render in 1987... Then Turbo Silver, Imagine, Lightwave and others. I kept using Imagine 4.0 because it gave the best render quality in my view and had the best procedural textures. But that of course is personal preference. And by the way, I found SysInfo benchmarks of my 4000-060 with Cybervision 64. 57,83 MIPS 41,46 MFLOPS the original 4000-040 with 25 MHz had 19,14 MIPS 4,85 MFLOPS if I run WinUAE with my PC (Intel Skylake 6700K) - WinUAE uses only 1 core anyway... 515,64 MIPS 75,34 MFLOPS Well that was boring, I guess... But I was suprised, I found those old benchmarks on my A-4000 harddisk.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Imagine was gorgeous in the render dept. Some of my earliest "successful" 3D stills are imagine.

  • @TedDeSander
    @TedDeSander2 ай бұрын

    My A2000 with the 68040 Card still stands a few meters away from me, packed in a box. I also started with Turbo Silver and made all updates up to Imagine 3.0. Everything should still be installed on the system... I also used a DCTV video enhancer, unfortunatly I never got the chance to use it for profit.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    There’s still time. Get it all back up and running. Conquer the world!

  • @carm3d
    @carm3d2 ай бұрын

    I did so much work in Imagine... Crazy how I barely remember it now.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I think I demonstrated that as well...clearly. hahah,

  • @simonpreston

    @simonpreston

    2 ай бұрын

    I think the muscle memory would kick in, if you started using it again.

  • @SJSsesco

    @SJSsesco

    2 ай бұрын

    Lord knows I'm saying that for a ton of things nowadays 😂

  • @Kommunisator
    @Kommunisator2 ай бұрын

    my first foray into 3d came with Data Becker Reflections 1.6 and the accompanying animator. It took ages to raytrace an object, but had features that were rarely seen later in much more expensive products (like the "crumple" function to generate a crushed look on surfaces). Later I used Caligari (not Truespace, the original Caligari) and with the Supra Turbo my old Amiga 500 could almost animate stuff inside the program in realtime. It was insane, and my mind was completely blown to make concept art in 3d with this tool, and fast! Sadly, I never got into Lightwave, because soon I moved over to PCs and 3DS (version4) and Bryce2 became my passions for a long time.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Caligari3D was the last Amiga app I tried before finally getting Lightwave3D on Amiga. It was decent. LW though, wow. Just awesome! Thank you for sharing your history. I love it when folks share. The stories are great!

  • @janialander414
    @janialander4142 ай бұрын

    I found out from some used diskettes for Amiga, a copy of Finnish modeling software, Real3d. I made some animations, and yes of course version of Star Trek's Enterprise. I do say rendering even small animation with Amiga 500 took a LOT of time...

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    We all rendered Star Trek hahaah. thank you for sharing!

  • @Anaerin
    @Anaerin2 ай бұрын

    DA0: makes sense. DF0: Disk (Floppy) 0 DA0: Disk (ADF) 0

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    ohhhhh, alright

  • @NathanDarkson984
    @NathanDarkson9842 ай бұрын

    It's funny how nowadays, most 3D Software like Maya or Blender is considered easier to use, and then you have Imagine for the Amiga...I pray the souls of those that didn't know what to do when they wanted to learn 3D animation back then :(

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    It's an exercise in......a lot.

  • @NathanDarkson984

    @NathanDarkson984

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify If you were to compare that to let's say Source Filmmaker (a bit arbitrary of me to compare Valve's game engine to a ancient 3D software, but bare with me), I'd say that SFM would somewhat be of an exercise as well since you'd have to learn methods on using it. But with Imagine? Both of them are somewhat similar in terms of 3D animation software, or CGI (in some instances), but if someone were to remake an episode of X:RA (Xavier Renegade Angel) entirely on Imagine, I'd applaud to them, because it would show how much they have the BALLS to animate on something that is considered ancient technology on an already-outdated computer platform.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    @NathanDarkson984 That would deserve a special Emmy at the least. When I sit down and really try to make something even in LW on Amiga, with all the ease it has, it’s still a SLOG. I have to slow way down, think smarter and more efficient, plan stuff out.

  • @lassebodilsen
    @lassebodilsen2 ай бұрын

    Made my first 3D render with sculpt 3D, on my 1 mb amiga A500. It was a very slow process 😊

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Felt good though, right? Doing what you could.

  • @lassebodilsen

    @lassebodilsen

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify it felt amazing, getting access to such advanced software on a home computer was totally insane back then.

  • @gordmills1983

    @gordmills1983

    2 ай бұрын

    8hrs for a 128pix Rez frame… been there, done that, got the t-shirt…

  • @airjuri
    @airjuri2 ай бұрын

    Imagine is great. I still stuff i made back in mid 90's :) I'm just glad that i made full backup of my A4k system before i sold it 1998. Somehow it has survived in my hard disks since then. I started to tinker with actual Amiga hardware again in 2016 so it was nice to have my old Amiga backups in working order :)

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    smart!

  • @warci
    @warci2 ай бұрын

    Man! I taught myself Imagine following tutorials from CU Amiga. Never got into Lightwave, I actually moved on to Tornado3D using a PPC+bvision, that one just loved to crash.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    You BRAVE soul!

  • @chrisfromgreece
    @chrisfromgreece2 ай бұрын

    I was borned in 1976 , right now i feel very boomer and i wish Aros would continue its development cause right now it seems like it is abandoned , i wish i could have an operating system with a retro touch.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    i’m very impressed with the progress of original Amiga Workbench under Hyperion. It’s getting better every year

  • @chrisfromgreece

    @chrisfromgreece

    2 ай бұрын

    yes its very good @@HoldandModify

  • @basicforge
    @basicforge2 ай бұрын

    The Amiga was amazing as a graphics machine when it came out. CGI back in the day was super cool, but when they used this sort of thing in movies it always was a distraction for me. The first movie that I ever saw that had realistic enough CGI to not distract me was The Fifth Element. I watched a good 15 minutes of this movie before I realized I was watching computer graphics. It was ground breaking.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah true. Although there was some CG in earlier movies that looked quite good. Used sparingly of course. Flight of the Intruder had some good stuff.

  • @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343
    @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc53432 ай бұрын

    Action & Stage editor are iintertwined. Cycle editor is for Cycle Objects. Think of a jointed robot, or a puppet. You can make your dancing/walking/jumping puppet in the Cycle editor. Detail editor is where you build most of your stuff.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Ah haa! It's slowly coming back to me. Thank you.

  • @DeeOdzta
    @DeeOdzta2 ай бұрын

    this hardware was so ahead of its time.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    absolutely!

  • @StephenBedser
    @StephenBedser2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this video! I really can’t imagine using imagine.. pun intended! Way back before Babylon 5 came out I was working at IBM’s UK labs developing Virtual Reality systems and early virtual studios. I was using a dev version of Lightwave 3D on a SGI machine…I can’t remember if that was before or during the early 3DS days but I never touched anything else, LW was my thing

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    hey that’s cool! love hearing these old stories! i have a lot of Amiga LW vids here as well.

  • @bosskeith1
    @bosskeith12 ай бұрын

    I miss my 500 actually dropped quite a bit of memory in the bottom if I remember properly

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    they’re on Ebay and if you’re patient, you can find a deal. Or of course, emulation.

  • @TheTurnipKing
    @TheTurnipKing2 ай бұрын

    the thing to remember is programs like Imagine were SLOW, because you were doing everything on the 68k. The Toaster being a Zorro device was important because it meant you were using a big box system that probably had a reasonably (or at least relatively) fast cpu. No real dedicated 3d hardware in '94

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Ive used a Toaster on a system with no CPU card upgrade. it was PAINFUL.

  • @TheTurnipKing

    @TheTurnipKing

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify my first experience was Imagine on a stock a600. It wasn't really usable except in a kind of "whet your appetite" kind of way.

  • @techkev140
    @techkev1402 ай бұрын

    I remember Imagine, Real3D, Lightwave (the really expensive one) but i got started with Cinema4D. Very interesting video flashback. I did use C4D to build a spacestation with a rotating section, a giant wheel. Worked out the size and speed of rotation to approximate 0.9G. I also built a simplistic StarFury type model, that will remain hidden for all time. StarFury was the fighter type, Delta was the squadron designation. I recall they were refered to Delta fighters in early episodes. They made an atmospheric capable version in later series called the Thunderbolt. Did i mention i've seen Babylon 5 and i quiet liked it?

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    B5 IS LEGENDARY!

  • @JafarCalley
    @JafarCalley2 ай бұрын

    "What's this pic file here?" - Riskiest click of the day for you :D

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    lol! TRUTH

  • @simonpreston
    @simonpreston2 ай бұрын

    Had both Imagine 3 and 4 on CU Amiga coverdisks. Sadly we could never really get into it, as it was too slow on an Amiga 1200, and we couldn't afford a processor card.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I hear ya man. Today we have the emulators at least

  • @simonpreston

    @simonpreston

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify true. But when you can get Blender for free, and better support for it, it would seem a somewhat fruitless hobby. Nice to dip in to the nostalgia now and then, though. :)

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    oh of course. this is just fun making retro 3d art. working with and around the limitations

  • @Elwaves2925
    @Elwaves29252 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the memories. I loved Imagine back in the day and had loads of CD's full of models. 3 of us put money together to buy it and then shared the manual. I always wanted Lightwave/Amiga Toaster but it was too expensive, although it did serve as the foundation for my username (which has been adapted over the years). Later on PC I managed to save up an get Inspire 3D, which was kind of a 'lite' version of Lightwave and eventually I got Lightwave itself.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh wow I had forgotten about Inspire3D! Glad you enjoyed. It’s neat going back through these old apps.

  • @Elwaves2925

    @Elwaves2925

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify Most people I've found have never heard of it, so it's great to find someone that does.

  • @MarquisDeSang
    @MarquisDeSang2 ай бұрын

    I was a master with Imagine 2.0, I still miss it. Also sad that Realsoft (Real 3D) has been semi-abandoned in 2020. Lightwave is back, I have the latest version 2023

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yup Lightwave3D lives on!

  • @hornsolo_official
    @hornsolo_official2 ай бұрын

    I wanted LightWave when I was a kid, but I had Lightwave at home... which was trueSpace. Then switched to 3dsmax in the aughts. You could say in this video you demonstrated how is babby formed.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I looked at Caligari. But LightRave came out and I finally had Lightwave for cheap. (yes I have a video on my channel about it too ;) )

  • @hornsolo_official

    @hornsolo_official

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify Cool story, before caligari went bust I contacted them and asked them if they had any copies of the original caligari for Amiga. They did and actually sent it to me. Unfortunately. It could not run on my Amiga 500, but it's still a little cool bit of obscure computer history to have.

  • @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343
    @jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc53432 ай бұрын

    I think NTSC/PAL might be a setting in the config file.

  • @kcharles8857
    @kcharles88572 ай бұрын

    Yep Imagine was my first 3D program on an Amiga 2000.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I was shocked how hard it was. i make Amiga Lightwave vids and thought i could handle Imagine again….nope. heheh

  • @kcharles8857

    @kcharles8857

    2 ай бұрын

    :)@@HoldandModify

  • @ErikDJ123
    @ErikDJ1232 ай бұрын

    Amigas were amazing. So much better than Macs and PCs of the time.

  • @whtiequillBj
    @whtiequillBj2 ай бұрын

    @15:41, I have learned 3D on Maya but currently use Blender and Preferences made my brain turn in-side-out.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    yes, I was agree

  • @claudiobudal3543
    @claudiobudal35432 ай бұрын

    I started in 1991 on Sculpt Animate 4-D, running on the A500 (1 MB). After a while, I tried using Imagine and it became very confusing for me. The big evolution was Lightwave 3D, running by LightRAVE, on my "recently acquired" A1200 Blizzard 1230IV 32 MB in 1993, leaving days to render a 4 seconds anim-5 animation and use of ClariSSA! for smooth interlaced animation. My favorite packages are: Lightwave3D, Vertex, Scene Generator, Cinemorph, AdPRO/MorphPlus, ExpertDraw and for painting: True Brilliance and Deluxe Paint.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Great seat of tools you had! I did a video on LightRave here on the channel. I was stunned to find a copy on Ebay. Considering how niche and rare it is.

  • @monopalle5768
    @monopalle57682 ай бұрын

    Thanks for representing WOMEN in the thumbnail! Women are just fine, and deserve representation. They are part of our community.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Glad to be of service!

  • @fankadeli
    @fankadeli2 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @valentine_puppy
    @valentine_puppy2 ай бұрын

    Aww I'd Love more B5. Anyway, interesting video. Thank you.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I have many videos showing off B5 in Lightwave at least. :)

  • @megatech1966
    @megatech19662 ай бұрын

    I brought sculpt animate 4D. Was expensive

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    yeah but that back cover on the box showed amazing 3D renders.

  • @Wiscotac
    @Wiscotac2 ай бұрын

    Oh yeah, it's "Mr Q you" . I think the international Amiga community still needs a further Kumbayah moment, which could happen if the world economies keep on deteriorating. It's not like we need too much diversity in the Amiga hardware/software space on the product side of things, possibly less with a little more consolidation or standardization, or trying not to look like too many linux distros. Maybe MorphOS or Aros will set the stage for some pan-solution.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Heck I say Hyperion keeps pushing with dev on original. It's getting more and more modern feeling while retaining its Amiga-ness!

  • @Wiscotac

    @Wiscotac

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify ✅

  • @MonkeyForNothing
    @MonkeyForNothing2 ай бұрын

    I did fairly advanced stuff in Imagine, mostly in v4 and 5 and it was surprisingly powerful but it looked so dated compared to Lightwave, The stage editior definitely wasnt as good as doing the same thing sin Lightwave, but for a lot of the other stuff, it was more powerful than most ppl think.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    imagine had many powers…impressive powers…only a few knew them all.

  • @jasonmaynard5532
    @jasonmaynard55322 ай бұрын

    Always fun watching your videos Q

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks man! Get ya some Q time! heh.

  • @Megatog615
    @Megatog6152 ай бұрын

    why didnt you use the amiga to make your video thumbnail?

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Because making thumbnails manually takes a Lot of work. I used to do that. I have around 200 videos. I run out of ideas. So now I use a free online Ai generator to make them. My intro video is still made by me and I was considering making a Made On Amiga version. Have to see. My day job eats up a TON of my time.

  • @Megatog615

    @Megatog615

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify then pay an artist

  • @Megatog615

    @Megatog615

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModifylike, it makes no sense to me. you make a whole video about creating CGI on the Amiga and the idea never crosses your mind to just use the shot at 7:20 with some text as the thumbnail?

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    @Megatog615 Hey. That’s a good idea actually. You’re right! I continue to live up to my..most poorly produced, under produced … I do have prior videos where I use screen grabs from LW3D as thumbs. A video I did just a couple weeks ago.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Megatog615 If they'll take the $28 a month I make on YT to make me thumbnails, then sure!

  • @JKC40
    @JKC402 ай бұрын

    iirc, imagine 3 was able to use RTG. that was before i figured out how to retarget LW 4...

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes and Lightwave3D Modeler was able to use RTG after version 4.0 I believe. Maybe 5. Heck you'd think I'd know. My brain is mostly oatmeal.

  • @Phil-D83
    @Phil-D832 ай бұрын

    Video toaster addons made those serious things cgi machines 😊

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    absolutely !

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics2 ай бұрын

    how is babby formed?

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    LOL

  • @manueljesus3147
    @manueljesus31472 ай бұрын

    I purchased Imagine.... what a great piece of software in that a to produce 3D VFX on a dekstop was a golden opportunity. But also... what a pile of b@lls in terms us ease of use. It was such a dog to use it made me bite the bullet and get a second hand A3K and Video Toaster with Lightwave and learn that system.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes. It was a great “first start” type of 3D app but boy did we hope for better.

  • @QAnog
    @QAnog2 ай бұрын

    hey

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    howdy

  • @spazoq
    @spazoq2 ай бұрын

    Videoscape 1.0 ftw.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    was thinking about showing that next. I have no idea how to use it either.

  • @CrazyDriverSwed
    @CrazyDriverSwed2 ай бұрын

    This video didn't blow my mind.

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    You are STOIC.

  • @jorgpeters7244
    @jorgpeters72442 ай бұрын

    Genlock is not CGI

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    I didn’t show any check lock. but Genlocks can display graphics

  • @davidewhite69
    @davidewhite692 ай бұрын

    7:25 once you see Donald Trump's face you cant unsee it!

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Staypuff? haha

  • @davidewhite69

    @davidewhite69

    2 ай бұрын

    @@HoldandModify i.imgur.com/USXZ3F2.jpg

  • @JerryKid72
    @JerryKid722 ай бұрын

    oof ai art, yikes!

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Look. I do 3D animation for a living. Even I embrace Ai art. It’s an evolution. Adapt, go with the flow, eching and stuff. ;)

  • @robogod3000
    @robogod30002 ай бұрын

    AMIGA F O R E V E R 💾❤️ SUBBED.. GREETZ FROM BAVARIA 🥨🍻

  • @HoldandModify

    @HoldandModify

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Please check out my channel. I have around 200 videos of Amiga stuff! :)

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