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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pixelmeister

10:05AM | Sat, 15 September 2007

Amiga yes, what for a beautiful time! I like the szene and illumination.

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bobbystahr

10:20AM | Sat, 15 September 2007

Man o man does this take me bac. Late starting I got in quick succession, an A1000 and an A2000 to explore the fantastic world of music via DMCS and when finished that project discovered some art[DPaint 1,2,3&4] in the box of software that came with the A1000. Well I was off to the races and soon discovered Imagine3D and eventually Terragen when I moved to pc...thanx for taking me back my friend...great image.. ...

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monkeYB07

5:58AM | Tue, 18 September 2007

Very good lightning. Is the background modeled or a bitmap ?

modyfree

6:44AM | Mon, 24 September 2007

Very nice work! I don't forget that day (I was 8 years old) the first time my country (U.A.E) was in Italia'90 Soccer Championship, ahh nice memory..

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Atom

11:06PM | Tue, 02 October 2007

We all remember...that was the time...

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TimSamArt

1:07AM | Fri, 05 October 2007

WOW this reminds me of my old amiga... lost in translation... very great work and extra realization!!!

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CrimsonDesire

5:58PM | Tue, 16 October 2007

Kool and cute to look back and you've got an optimus prime yay! ^^

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Naoo

3:18PM | Sat, 20 October 2007

I like it!!!

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trishabadblood

7:14AM | Thu, 25 October 2007

blast from the past..excellent work...

ThePinkus

12:29PM | Mon, 29 October 2007

Ah! I had an Amiga 500 too! Well, I still have it (as I still have my ZX Spectrum, actually)! In '90, I was 18, that's probably why I didn't bought the mascotte, though being Italian ;^). I wasn't on CG with Amiga, but I was "inventing" object-oriented programming with AMOS (a programming language for this computer, curious-- it had no object-features, just procedures, and no one had yet told me a word about such things at all, so I guess I was somehow discovering it on my own, by embedding direct memory manipulation into those procedures... it was cool...) BTW You mentioned You read Your Amiga disk, I knew there were really hard problems doing this... got to check out for new on this ;^). Last but not least: Your picture is amazing!!!! Stefano

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Azr1el

12:46PM | Mon, 29 October 2007

Superb image and modeling skills on display here! :)

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vertexpuller

8:02AM | Sun, 04 November 2007

Like the picture, can see a lot of thought has gone into it :)

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MidnightSon

3:32AM | Wed, 07 November 2007

Very good models. Love the lighting, too... Good job !

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el_kanalia

4:12AM | Sun, 16 December 2007

i can feel the summer mood here. i had c64 before amiga. excellent.

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abu_kartona

2:31AM | Tue, 18 December 2007

Very real view...!

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BartoszSmykowski

6:18PM | Fri, 29 February 2008

My brother: "Ok, go shoppin' it's my turn now" Me: "No, it's my keyboard." My brother: "I'll tell mom" Me: "Go then. I'll tell dad" Anyway ... beautiful. Dream to have one of these in here in the corner ;)

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PhilW

10:46AM | Wed, 16 April 2008

I clearly predate you - I started on a BBC Micro with 32KB of RAM! And so started my love affair with computer graphics in 1982! I then moved to an Amiga 500 - with Deluxe Paint, a terrific program for it's time! And this brings back many happy memories. I even used to write for Amiga User International magazine (and Acorn User before that!). A wonderfully done nostalgic image!

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Ailig68

8:09AM | Fri, 21 November 2008

Now this is great. i completely forgot about that ITALIA 90 mascott...:) Thanx for memories :) And yes..Amiga...aaccchchh :)

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glennb

8:31PM | Fri, 29 October 2010

Really really nice :)

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bigbraader

2:45AM | Mon, 23 May 2011

Excellent!

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bodo_56

6:17AM | Fri, 10 June 2011

Great modelling work! Brings back memories of my beloved amiga!

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Ink_heron

9:33AM | Fri, 10 June 2011

so cute... remind me good times!!!

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duccio

4:31PM | Mon, 04 July 2011

lovely!

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mdilorenzo

1:18AM | Sun, 25 September 2011

Bellissimo lavoro, sia per il perfetto realismo sia per l'aspetto ludico-nostalgico!

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ShiftersEvoFreebies

1:25AM | Sun, 25 September 2011

Very cool, especially the Optimus Prime toy's model!

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A_Sunbeam

9:38AM | Tue, 25 October 2011

We had a thing called a "Colour Genie" - looked similar; and the BBC computer was very popular about the same time. I actually started computing before this, using Fortran IV, and later BASIC. First proper desktop was a PowerMac 7300 (still working ...)

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mariogiannecchini

9:42AM | Wed, 02 November 2011

Complimenti ! Veramente Un computer Amiga molto reale !Perfetta immagine ! Nell'andare al Comics ho pensato che vale la pen di tirnare a Lucca nei giorni prossimi , ho visto ottimi spunti autunnali verso le Mura .

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