Amazing reminder of what I was doing back in 1988. I had an Image Innovation Vision 400 vector artwork computer creating SCODL files using a Wyse PC286 (640k RAM, 20mb HD). Images were converted and shot onto exactly that system. A Matrix QCR with an Oxberry 35mm head. Good times. Thanks Analog Thinker for this blast from the past!
Phil Nibbelink used Macromedia Flash 4 (Adobe Animate) and Moho (Smith Micro Software Moho) to animate the movie Romeo and Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss from the animation studio Phil Nibbelink Productions.
Absolutelly, I have done a 4k export, overlayed at 6:06 in this video, I am not sure I can show the raw final result without a copyright claim, but here is a link to this sequence ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O5ZBjUND4tI.html
It was sold as a "Turn key" solution, however I had to re-seat a few ICs, probably moved during the shipping. Nothing major and a great surprise, seems to be a way faster film printer than the MGI Solitaire (tho only 4K instead of 16k so...)
It is indeed, my friend tried to run it on Phil’s computer yesterday, the only caveat is it does need an additional Kuper ISA card to drive the film advance mechanism (stepper motors, position sensors etc...) where this Phoenix 4k has the film advance driver managed internally... trade off decisions
crnkmnky film recorders are still a thing and used for transfer of modern movies to film for IMAX or other older theatre that haven’t invested in expensive digital projectors and still using film rolls. Now I believe Arrilaser is the leading brand and using Laser instead of CRT, which was still a thing until Jurassic Park or even Avatar, check the video I made on the MGI Solitaire to see the machine used for those movies if interested!
crnkmnky a friend of mine is an art teacher and has a project where he needed a film printer, we tried multiple ones but we were missing the rare and very expensive software (RasterPlus), so he stumbled upon this auction and was lucky enough to win it last minute, the auction was advertized as an estate sale from Nib’s production storage, I then only had to do some research to unravel the story :)
