1990... Amiga Nostalgy by DocMikeB

3D Studio Max • Realism • posted on Jul 21, 2007

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A nostalgic image... It was the summer of 1990 and I was 10 years old. My first computer was an AMIGA 500 and I started to work with DELUXE PAINT, a 2D program... The image on the screen is the original picture I made... absolutely my first work! (The file was recovered from an old floppy with an Amiga Emulator, WinUae). I made a scene of the Transformers's toon, inspired to the first episode of the animated serie, "Escape from planet Cybertron". So started my passion for Computer Graphics. I applied to the 3D only in the fall of 1998, with Bryce 2, and I started to learn 3D Studio Max in December 1999-January 2000... In the summer of the 1990 in Italy was played the World Soccer Championship... So I put in the scene also the Official Mascotte of the event... that strange figure with the head like a soccer ball and the body like tetris-pieces on the left... Every boy in Italy that year bought one of theese mascottes, I suppose... On YouTube I've found the TV promo of Italia'90 Soccer Championship. A good 3D graphic example... for that time! Link: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=1oe0webMVu0 Thank you for viewing, and please leave some comment, if you want...

Comments (90)

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evilsasha

7:55AM | Tue, 24 July 2007

Idea is good... you can work on material of monitor (plastic) and change a texture of table because is terrible... Image is good... Matteo

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Daramski

8:38AM | Tue, 24 July 2007

Really excellent scene, a flash from the past, great image!!

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frogster

5:51PM | Tue, 24 July 2007

Outstanding work, love it.

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Silgrin

2:58AM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Mmm, these lovely classical computers... Youre lucky you got hands on them so early... Also home - using Max in 2000 wasnt so common... even while you bear in mind that most its users [at least here:P] buy it on a market or d/load from the deep dungeons of the Net:/ My 1st computer was just an ordinary PC, and it was in the times when nothing else was available any more... Even Macs seemed almost extinct. Now I have a stronger one with a mad bunch of 3D software [ArtOfillusion, Blender, Cinema4D 6, LightWave 7.5...] and still make use of almost all of it! Imagine the crazy route my projects go before maturation:P Just today, I created a model with C4D and exported it to LW via Blender:P Going back to the classical computers, one of my work colleagues still has a working Spectrum in his cellar;] And even more, it`s not an original ZX Spectrum, but rather some American clone of it! I should create some image from times of my Spectrum course with that line - drawn game graphics:P Cheers! Sorry for that word - flood (:P) but your lovely piece provoked a cascade of memories:) Especially I also modeled a "classical" computer some time ago;)

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PositivelyCreative

12:06PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

Oh my GOSH!! An old Commodore computer. My GOODNESS! It's been, what more than 18 years since i've seen one of these...or longer? EXCELLENT work and the details all around are wonderful eye candy. Remarkable render!!

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Rausen

4:30PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

T_T old times always better XD, anyway you do it veeery well!!!!

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soliloquy42

9:02PM | Wed, 25 July 2007

excellent imagery and your comment completes the link to reminiscence

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delaorden_ojeda

11:20AM | Thu, 26 July 2007

great nostalgic image, excelent work !!

alpresci

10:39AM | Fri, 27 July 2007

Well done Michele... greetings from scotland!

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ansary928

7:10AM | Sat, 28 July 2007

excellant work

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duo

9:59AM | Sat, 28 July 2007

Fantastic image! BRAVISSIMO! I still have my Amiga with its original Philips monitor and hundred of disks in a box, down in my cellar. I think that it still work - BTW: I have also a Spectrum with hundreds of cassettes in the same cellar... Actually is an Amiga II with the Hard Disk (5 MB!!!); it was my second, and my last one Commodore, after Amiga I. I remember a summer of '90 passed with my best friend Mauro, closed inside his vacation apartment in mountain, to discover the contents of 200 copied disks without tags, just buyed from a local "Amiga dealer". What fun! What memories! What a good times! All those moments will be lost in time... Like tears in rain. :( :) If the Commodore managment had been no so dumb, today we would all use a Commodore computer to write here on Renderosity and to do all other computer stuff, in place of those "horrible" Windows based PCs or Apples... But this is the real prosaic future... ;)

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Dreamful

4:07PM | Sun, 29 July 2007

Fantastic realism, great! Io avevo il c128, che tempi!!!!..che ricordi!!

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DOM1

9:37PM | Sun, 29 July 2007

Great work, and the Amiga was a fine computer.

Kattey

1:21PM | Mon, 30 July 2007

I remember Deluxe Paint! :) It still has some functions which I was unable to find in other painters, like fill border gradients and cycle colors :) But at 1990 I saw computers only twice per year. Thanks for the picture!

WhopperNnoonWalker-

3:50AM | Tue, 31 July 2007

woooooooow amazing work

musicman123

6:30PM | Tue, 31 July 2007

Really cool image. Love the lighting!

phlynn

6:36PM | Thu, 02 August 2007

I reckon, if I look in the attic I will find my old Optimus Prime figure & the video of the movie..ahh memories! I love your modeling & use of light! 5+

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Hendesse

12:24PM | Fri, 03 August 2007

Excellent composition. Fantastic details. Superbly done!!

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2Loose2Trek

1:59PM | Fri, 03 August 2007

When I think back to '90 I do believe I was still using my 286 Tandy TX1000 with 3.5"/5.25" floppy drives and, at that time, recently upgraded with a 30MB HD. Anyway back to your work. This is fantastically well modeled and rendered. Excellent and superbly realistic work!

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chimera46

3:45PM | Fri, 03 August 2007

Superb work on this one, I wish I was doing that well when I was 10!

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jif3d

11:04PM | Sat, 04 August 2007

Amiga's ROCK, well they did back then and when DP3 came out, we could animate !!! Thanx for the memories and kool scene ! ~Cheers~ :o)

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Mondwin

9:25AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Very realistic and superb work Dear Friend!!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Ciaooo Whylma

jimmont

9:00PM | Wed, 29 August 2007

grat work i like very much congrats

tr4cey

6:11AM | Thu, 30 August 2007

Wow, another amazing render. It looks so real! Great work!

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DennisReed

9:17AM | Tue, 04 September 2007

Fantastic detail! Wish I were 10 in '90! ;)

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Richardphotos

9:23AM | Fri, 07 September 2007

I was installing computer equipment in 1982 and working on computerized money controllers but intimidated by the prospect of actually learning computer use .I finally bought my first computer in 1999 to do bookkeeping and fell in love.

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Questor4

2:24AM | Mon, 10 September 2007

I had this computer too, It was the best machine out at the time. I remember many hours lost using deluxe paint. You've achieved an excellent tribute scene, well done!

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