My dear friend Cliff Leckey produced this animation on Deluxe Paint IV using
WinUAE on a Windows Vista PC.
When I first met Cliff and his wife Jean in the early 2000s, we discovered we
both had a love for Amiga computers, depiste the popularity of Windows PCs at
the time. We soon became great friends. Cliff had sold his motorbike and bought
an Amiga 1200, which he regularly used to create animations in Deluxe Paint,
recording them to VHS tape using a GenLock. Often he would use ClariSSA to
produce titles for his various holiday videos.
I was regularly called on when he had a problem with his Amiga. I called on him
too when I had a problem with my motorbike! Eventually he got a PC, and the
Amiga was moved up to the loft. But he still loved to work on the emulator,
which of course enabled him to produce animations at a far faster rate than he
ever did with his 1200.
This animation was created by Cliff a number of years ago, and is a
visualisation of the approach of a satellite going into orbit around the Red
Planet. As you can see, he has worked very hard to achieve a three dimensional
effect, which is completely hand drawn.
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