General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Gahlinger" <dgahling at hotmail.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:11 PM Subject: RE: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars) Babylon 5 was done entirely on amigas, that's not a small feat, so what you say isn't entirely true. the complexity is available, the ability is there, to an extent. http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html "All special effects for Babylon 5 are computer generated. Foundation Imaging, headed by Ron Thornton, produced the special effects for the pilot movie and seasons one through three. Starting in season four, the special effects were moved in-house to Netter Digital Imaging, another subsidiary of the parent of B5's production company. The B5 effects teams, both at Foundation and at NDI, use Lightwave 3D by NewTek and specialized software to design and render the visual effects. For the pilot, the effects were rendered on a network of Amiga computers; later, Foundation used 12 Pentium PCs and 5 DEC Alpha workstations for 3D rendering and design, and 3 Macintoshes for piecing together on-set computer displays"