Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2008-04-03 | The song "Still Alive" is a little past it's prime today, and in fact I could have had this up in January, but I'd been trying since then to get usage permission from Valve software, with no response at all except some positive comment from songwriter Jonathan Coulton (Thanks John!). So - I'll just recommend that everyone who likes the music either buy the game Portal, or the music CD/track downloads from Amazon. Hope you enjoy the vid.
Still Alive Amiga tribute video by Eric Schwartz (remastered) feralstorm 2020-09-27 | For the 35th Anniversary of the Amiga computer's debut, a remastered (at 720P) version of my original 2008 Amiga animation to the song "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton and sung by Ellen McLain for the "Portal" video game by Valve. (The use of the song here largely ignores the context of the game itself in favor of an Amiga historical context).
Remote Possibilities - Amiga Animation Starring Sabrina, by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2020-09-04 | My second animation featuring Sabrina the skunk, and many pop-culture transformational cameo appearances. One of the last Moviesetter animations I produced, and an ambitious project for the media in which it was made.
The Anti-Lemmin Demo - Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2020-09-04 | One of my most famous works, piggybacking on the Lemmings game craze back when. Mixed the Lemmings with one of the Aerotoons planes. Also features my late Mother, in the form of sped-up audio.
ATF Agility - Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2020-09-04 | Another from my 'Aerotoons' series of animations. This one was done up as a standard ANIM as opposed to a Moviesetter work, as it was made to follow a steady timing with fast and full-screen motion.
Gulf Conflict - Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2020-09-04 | An animation from that long-ago time when Americans used to cheer violence against people from other places. (cough). Notable for some sparing use of rendered CG together with drawn animation
Sabrina in Plight of the Artist - Amiga Animation by Eric W. Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-11 | The first appearance of Sabrina the skunk in animation, before even the "Sabrina Online" web comic which started in 1996. One of my longer animated works, with something vaguely approaching a soundtrack.
Vietnam Conflict - Amiga Aerotoon animation by Eric W. Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-04 | To be clear, this is a conflict between two Vietnam-war-era aircraft, and has little-to-nothing to say about the actual Vietnam war itself.
Stealthy Manuever 2 - Amiga Animation by Eric W. Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-04 | The sequel to my very first Amiga animation, with a little bit more to it. Some British Amiga magazines had an interesting tendency to refer to any of my "Aerotoons" animations as 'Stealthy Demos' and their protagonists as stealth planes regardless of what the actually are.
Terminal - Amiga Animation by Eric W. Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-02 | Another short and simplistic joke animation, built largely around the steady beep, and my interest in drawing a sexy nurse.
Late Night - Amiga Animation by Eric W. Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-02 | Many of my old videos were built around the most basic of jokes. Thanks go to my late father, Ron Schwartz, for allowing himself to be recorded to play the part of 'Hubert'.
Morphy the Magic Man - Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2020-07-02 | A classic animation of mine from 1994, which started life as a college animation class final project. Also my first high-res animation for AGA Amiga systems, but a low res version was also produced.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Juggette Demo 2 feralstorm 2017-05-17 | Remastered with minor tweaks for the HD video era.This is a sequel of sorts to 1989's 'Juggler Demo 2' and the 'Juggette' anim loop. I was big on the 'Benny Hill' style humor back in my youth, which doesn't fly so well today. I'm always reminded of a time when my animations were running at a computer show, and a couple was watching. The Dude-bro fratboy was laughing his ass off at the sexual-harassment humor, while his girlfriend had the expression of someone who just walked into a room full of farts. That kinda summed it up for me.This video was an extreme challenge to remaster, with all the overlapping sound effects. I fear for the work involved in redoing my later works with even more elaborate soundtracks.
Amiga animation by Eric Schwartz - Batman the Moviesetter Movie feralstorm 2017-05-05 | With remastering and minor tweaks for 720P HD.We're talking a Nicholson-era Joker here, and a Batman with noisy shoes. I got to play a bit with color changes to show lighting changes. Fun Fact - the 'bat' was created with 3D rendering software for no apparent reason.
Amiga ANIM loops by Eric Schwartz, Vol. 2 feralstorm 2017-04-27 | (Music: 'Sugar' by Vibe Tracks)This is another group of my short-form works from 1989, mostly created though playing around with Deluxe Paint 3's infamous 'move' requester, which let you animate flat graphics moving around 3-dimensional space. I played around with the 'flatness' in the two video game-themed clips. The 'Roundtable' clip was made for my parents, who used it as promotional imagery for their work in scouting.
Amiga ANIM loops by Eric Schwartz, Vol. 1 feralstorm 2017-03-31 | Amiga music: Knulla Kuk! by Moby of AlcatrazRemastered in 720P from 240P source stuff.Most of these works were produced in 1989 after getting DeluxePaint 3 and experimenting with its pseudo-3D motion facilities. Also we have the first official appearances of two characters who later appeared in other works - the Juggette and Amy the Squirrel. The Juggette animation was my attempt to make a 2D animation loop as 'rendered'-looking as the 3D raytraced Juggler animation that inspired it. The 'Amy Walks' animation started as a drawn animation on paper, brought into the Amiga via the 'Digi-View' digitizer by NewTek (done at the Merical computer store in Dayton), then colored and scrolling background added in DPaint.
Amiga animation by Eric Schwartz - VTOL Contest feralstorm 2017-03-25 | Remastered in 720P from 240P source materials.Presenting a not-so-realistic rivalry between a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and an AV-8 Harrier 'jump jet'. Slowly starting to break out of that 1 megabyte, 30 seconds-or-less format I started out with.
Amiga animmation by Eric Schwartz - Korean Conflict feralstorm 2017-03-24 | Remastered in 720P from 240P source materials.A 1950s-era air battle between a Sabre jet and a Mig, in all their shiny bare aluminum glory. I tried using some of the 2.5D animation facilities of Deluxe Paint to simulate 3D movement, to extremely limited success.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Soviet Soft Landing feralstorm 2017-03-12 | Remastered in glorious 720P from 240P source, with minor fixes and tweaks.You see, back in the eighties, there was this thing called the "Soviet Union". maybe you'll see it again in a few years.There was also this stuff called 'snow'.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Navy Aggressor Training feralstorm 2017-03-11 | Remastered in glorious 720P (from 240P stuff) with minor tweaks and fixes.This one came off more a silly expression course than a coherent gag, but the animated punctuation marks were fun.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Juggler Demo 2 feralstorm 2017-03-05 | Remastered in 720P with minor fixes and timing tweaksThe first of a series of shorts featuring the 'Juggette', the distaff 2-D counterpart of the 'Juggler', from the animation demo by Dr. Eric Graham, and one of the very first raytraced animations produced and played back with a personal computer.
Amiga animation by Eric Schwartz - Skydive feralstorm 2017-02-26 | Remastered in glorious 720P from 240P source materials, and featuring a DAMN blue sky!The premise here revolves around familiarity with the Harrier jet and its VTOL maneuverability. Of course real Harriers couldn't actually go from free fall to hover right above the ground, so that's why we have cartoons.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Stealth Bomber feralstorm 2017-02-25 | Remastered in glorious 720P (of 240P stuff) with fixes and tweaksThis one is a definite un-masterpiece, sort of a bare commentary on the big price tag of the then-new B-2 bomber, capped off with my thoughts of "Not funny! Throw in a pratfall!"
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Coyote 2 feralstorm 2017-02-18 | 'Remastered' in 720P from the original 240P source material, with minor fixes and tweaks.I guess you could consider this an animation done out of pettiness, in a way. I saw another Amiga animation known as the "Coyote Demo", or "Education of a Young Coyote", by Gene Brawn. It was technically proficient and quite impressive, with photographic desert backgrounds, but (in my opinion) it was missing the expressive character that made the Road Runner cartoons stand out. So I did my own "Coyote Demo", aping the expressions and gags of the Chuck Jones-directed cartoons. Just ignore the spontaneously-appearing intersection as a special event as opposed to a massive continuity error.
Amiga animation by Eric Schwartz - The Swiss Army F-16 in Combat feralstorm 2017-02-08 | My 'Aerotoons' animations tend to fall in one of two categories - ones that require some knowledge of specific aircraft to understand, and silly cartoon gags that just happen to have airplane characters. This falls in the second category, an expanded version of a print cartoon I drew long ago.'Remastered' in glorious 720P (from 240P source material) with timing tweaks.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - Stealthy Maneuver - remastered feralstorm 2017-02-03 | One of my very first Amiga Animations from back in 1989, the first of the "Aerotoons" series, and probably the first to tell a coherent gag. The Aerotoons were inspired largely by my own interest in aviation (and my father, who was an aerospace engineer) and print cartoons by artist Hank Caruso called "Aerocatures". I tried my hand at doing similar prints, but did better (and slightly more original) with the subject in animation. As this was one of my first Animations, I was sweating bullets that it might not fit within the memory of a 1 megabyte Amiga 500.Now available in glorious 720P of 240P graphics, with corrected timings. Starring the F-117 'stealth' fighter and the Mig-25 'Foxbat'.
Amiga Animation by Eric Schwartz - How to Run Into a Wall - remastered feralstorm 2017-02-02 | This was one of my very first Amiga animations ever from the distant past of 1989, and is more of a tech demo of sorts, as I was getting a feel for the Moviesetter software and for animating in this medium. The little green guy is Sam, based on, but only vaguely looking like the character of the same name from the "Q*Bert" video game.(now availiable in glorious 720P of 240P imagery, with corrected timings)
The Amiga Song feralstorm 2016-11-01 | The trilogy is completed in this 30th (plus 1) Anniversary of the Commodore Amiga music video.I have no intention to benefit off the use of any music or other works appearing in this video, and proper credits are given at the end of it.
Only Amiga 25th Anniversary Animated Tribute by Eric Schwartz feralstorm 2010-11-22 | IN COLOR!The computer characters from my "Still Alive" video return in tribute to a quarter-century of the Amiga system, and a quarter-century of the visual works created with its help. I hope you enjoy it at least a fraction as much as I enjoyed making it.
