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| In 1995, used Newtek's Lightwave to create a 30-second, 3D animated logo sequence for the opening of a program appearing on SCTN Channel 25, called Your Cable Connection. The file here served IS NOT the animation as it appeared on the show, but a BETA RENDER prior to post-production. Additionally, the musical accompaniment is not the music from the show. |
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| The animation was designed in collaboration with the station's manager and chief editor. The theme attempting to be conveyed was that the station's owner, Chicago Cable, was going to be expanding its business into a wide variety of telecommunications markets, including those touched by satellite technology, The Internet, and telephone service. |
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| After a number of meetings, sketches and storyboards, a sequence was settled upon in which a single camera shot would track a huge, space-station like structure as it systematically moved into a position unseen to the viewer till the very end. The camera would track along its surface as items suggestive of telecommunications sequentially emerged from portals in its "hull." |
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| Finally, the camera would pull back and reveal the structure to be part of the logo. The movement is revealed to have been two interlocking C's moving into position so as to spell 'Cable' and 'Connection.' |
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| The animation was created in an Amiga environment as part of Newtek's Video Toaster editing platform. |
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| Certainly less compelling by todays' standards, in 1995 the animation was deemed not bad a bargain for local programming and an animator still in school. |
