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MANGA WORLD
December 1992 : Graphics and Program - sunteam_paul : Music - sunteam_phil
This demo started off quite differently. Originally, I had planned to do a demo based on the anime 'Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee' which I knew only then as 'Samurai Pizza Cats'. It was playing on a Saturday morning kids show (Motormouth I think) and was unmissable, being one of very few examples of real Japanese animation on TV at the time. After a few pictures were completed the idea slipped away, and it became incorporated into a more universal 'manga' demo.
I soon learned the best way to get rather nice anime pictures faithfully onto the Amiga...this being a time where you just didn't have access to video capture or scanners. The secret was acetate. I used to have an A4 sheet of acetate, which I traced the outlines of the pictures with a felt-tip pen (which not only was a little too thick for the job, it also blobbed up and didn't draw onto the plastic very well). If I was taking a picture from the TV, I would pause the video, tape the acetate to the TV screen and trace it that way. Then I would carefully re-trace it in DPaint, trying my best not to move my head as this would significantly shift the image I was copying. After that it was a case of hand colouring and drawing in backgrounds. It was not as easy as it sounds.
The slideshow is accompanied by a cover of the ending theme from Wonder Boy III - Monster Lair by sunteam_phil. It's a little out of tune but I can live with that because it's a neat little tune.
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The PC Engine CD-Rom System screen starts off this demo, with a sampled jingle from one of the many Ranma 1/2 games.
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Ah, the good old Sunteam logo. After a few tries, this was the one that stuck for the majority of the Amiga years. I still like it. |
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Fushigi no Umi no Nadia. Here I was just beginning to experiment with adding background imagery. |
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As earlier works and because they were straight from the TV, the Samurai Pizza Cats pictures are noticeably more basic. |
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I was a big Dragon Ball fan way before it was fashionable to be one. I've got all the Japanese Tankōbon. |
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Polly from Samurai Pizza Cats. |
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A still from Miyazaki's Laputa - the movie that can be pretty much credited for kick-starting my long-term love of anime. I first saw it when it was shown (I believe) on a New Year's Day on ITV. Nothing has been the same since. |
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An abundance of Nadia pictures were featured because I really liked the character design, and it was quite prominent in Newtype then. |
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An injured Goku from Dragon Ball Z. |
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Yawara! is another manga/anime that I though had wonderful character design. It's simple and not over the top, but very appealing. |
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More Samurai Pizza Cats. |
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Another nice Nadia picture from Newtype. |
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Samurai Pizza Cats.
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An image from Silent Mobius. I always liked the art style of the anime. |
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I was really getting the hang of it with this Ranma 1/2 picture. It has a lot of smaller details which were very difficult to draw accurately. At such low resolutions, even a pixel difference could make a picture look goofy and wrong. |
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UNUSED ART
A leftover from the original plan to produce a Samurai Pizza Cats demo.
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