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Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by Computer Image Corporation of Denver, Colorado.
The 8 Scanimate systems were used to produce much of the video-based animation seen on television between most of the 1970s and early 1980s in commercials, promotions, and show openings. One of the major advantages the Scanimate system had over film-based animation and computer animation was the ability to create animations in real time. The speed with which animation could be produced on the system because of this, as well as its range of possible effects, helped it to supersede film-based animation techniques for television graphics. By the mid-1980s, it was superseded by digital computer animation, which produced sharper images and more sophisticated 3D imagery.
Animations created on Scanimate and similar analog computer animation systems have a number of characteristic features that distinguish them from film-based animation: The motion is extremely fluid, using all 60 fields per second (in NTSC format video) or 50 fields (in PAL format video) rather than the 24 frames per second that film uses; the colors are much brighter and more saturated; and the images have a very "electronic" look that results from the direct manipulation of video signals through which the Scanimate produces the images.
Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by Computer Image Corporation of Denver...
in a send-up of Mission: Impossible, the word would self-destruct in a Scanimate animation sequence after the time expired. In seasons five and six (1975...
October 1, 2020. "The Further Adventures of Marvin the Martian (1984 Scanimate Short)". YouTube. Retrieved October 31, 2020. "Bugs & Friends Sing Elvis"...
effects, created at Image West, Ltd. using then-cutting edge equipment: the Scanimate analog computer system and a Quantel DFS 3000 digital framestore. The...
Nomogram Norden bombsight Rangekeeper, and related fire control computers Scanimate Torpedo Data Computer Torquetum Water integrator MONIAC, economic modelling...
in the form of famous animated company logo graphics from the era of Scanimate and early CGI. Notable featured company logos are those of Channel 4,...
broadcasters were beginning to enter the computer age, using machines like Scanimate. With the 1980s came a return to the older style of logos. Warner Bros...
the Philippines to incorporate computer-generated graphics using the Scanimate system for its station identity and promo spots, followed only by RPN...
first machine to achieve widespread public attention in the media was Scanimate, an analog computer animation system designed and built by Lee Harrison...
1976 until 1985, analogue computer-generated idents produced using the Scanimate system were used on TF1, created by the American company Robert Abel and...
fourth and final series. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory First use of Scanimate in a feature film. The analog computer animation system was used to create...
III's ANIMAC: (Hybrid graphic animation computer) – predecessor to the Scanimate 1966, Dan Slater's custom vsynths: Dan Slater has built a number of custom...
Mechanical Engineering in 1959). He is best known as the inventor of Scanimate and the ANIMAC. He received an Emmy Award in 1972 for his work. Harrison...
Dolphin Productions - making Globo the first national network to use the Scanimate system of computer animation and the second TV station in Brazil to adopt...
the Muppet television series The Jim Henson Hour. Henson had used the Scanimate system to generate a digital version of his Nobody character in real-time...
parent company. The same year RCTV became a pioneer station to use the Scanimate system of computer graphics for its on-air presentation and program graphics...
film. Before that DiFrancesco worked at Computer Image Corp., working on Scanimate with Lee Harrison, and also at Xerox PARC with Dick Shoup working on the...
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