Some truly talented people actually created some great stuff with Neochrome **Above** from: http://alive.atari.org/alive10/esneo.php

Before Poser, I would use overhead transparency sheets and a felt tip pen to trace pictures from educational magazines like Playboy, Gent and Dude. I taped them to my TV screen and then trace the outlines with my mouse on an Atari ST (512 KB RAM) using the paint program Neochrome. Then I'd paint and fill in the outlines in 16 colors (out of a palette of 512) in all their 320x200 glory. Later I got a primitive - in todays terms - and expensive ($75.00) 3D program called Aegis Animator. Poser is, I suppose, the culmination of those two experiences.

Now, I can no longer spend Saturday afternoons chatting with the nice folks at the long defunct newsstand wile perusing source material. Instead, I spend time looking for the perfect HDRI map. Instead of working on some Frankenstein mouse/pantograph gadget, or hanging out at the tobacco shop (that oddly, was the only place in town selling ST software!), I'm wondering if this hair is sufficiently different from all the other hair I have to justify getting it. Progress is nice, but I'm not sure that the 'good' old days weren't actually better.

 
 

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