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Nine years later, Toy Story.

I remember standing in front of an Amiga that was set up in a store watching all the demos back in the 80s. The one that sticks out in my mind to this day was one about a Mars probe or something that reconstructs a fossil - can't find it.

Monkey Ball Juggler.

✨💕

I remember this,my boyfriend in 87'-got and Amiga for Xmas that year

OMG , now I know I’m in the right place. I have an Amiga 4000 in my closet. The most amazing computer I ever bought.

Reminds of the ol’ YTV interstitials

Atari 800 forever, so say ANTIC and POKEY

Whimsical little guy right here

he's pretty good at that despite his build

hell yeah

Further evidence that circular juggling is two balls in the air but looks like one, vs cascade juggling which is one ball in the air looking like two.

I dreamed of having a Commodore Amiga (had a Commodore 128). Does someone remember "Venus coming Out of the Sea" in the Amiga? Or King Tut?

I used to walk into exchanges, malls, and computer stores stick in one of these demos on a floppy and they'd just start selling Amigas.

Loved my Amiga.

youtu.be/VNaGbJBAeqA?... #C64

I miss my Amiga 2000HD and CDTV

Raytracing, 80's style...

The amiga can produce mind boggling effects

A lot of CGI artists would never have gotten far without floating reflective spheres over an infinite checkerboard.

That’s a boatload of ray tracing code! Nice work!

Wow... this sent me on a journey, looking for our old MacroForm & FXtreme ads and reviews in Amiga/NewTek-centric magazines😳 Thanx for a welcome blast from the past👍 #Amiga #90s #3DSoftware #development

Yep. Created my first commercial product MacroForm 1.0 for Lightwave 3D in AREXX backinnaday (early 90's)

That was a definitive wow moment

The backstory for those interested... www.etwright.org/cghist/juggl...

Imagine putting a jumpscare at the end just to mess with folks who got mesmerized

Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.

@elkmoose.bsky.social

Well, because spheres were the only geometry that the developer (Eric Graham) had working at that point.

Hard to believe this was jaw-dropping at the time.

This demo was mind blowing at the time. Sold a lot of Amigas, I'm sure.

average blender EEVEE render

That must have taken a couple of weeks to render.

At the time that was da shit. How can it be done? "It is soo much better than the C64! Impossible!"

Yup, a 7mhz 68000 is not a powerhouse for 3d rendering. I did a lot of ray tracing on my A2000 and low res previews used to take 10mins. Usually and hour or two for full simple renders.

I liked the walking cat animation

"I recall, a little pc shop in Singapore : the crisp colors and reflections : after years of green monochrome, the realization that everything has changed was clear."

Hold and Modify

Bro would fit in both the ENA verse and The Amazing Digital Circus

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_...

OnlySpheres

I love you Amiga Juggler

Amiga juggler my beloved <3 your ray tracing looks beautiful today my dear

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azq...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hET7...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeJX...

Loved it. My first introduction to ray-tracing.

Can we just go back to late 80s early 90s visual tech???

Old CGI can make some people feel unnerved. I think it's neat for the time, but back when 3d polygons were a new thing, it was considered to be a little scary.