Art and Film Director

[larrykoubiak]

Hi there fellows.

I recently got in contact with Maurice Molyneaux. He was the art director for Breach 2, Universe 3, Paladin...
The reason he contacted me was that i had posted a simple video of the demo animation that came with the Film Director package of Epyx. He was also the art director for the Art and Director package and made all the demo animations that were included.

Long story short, he asked me if i had still the disks, or a copy of them he could use in an emulator. Turns out he still has some of the work he did with those applications. I had some copies taken from the TOSEC collection of Atari-ST roms, but it turns out that they are incomplete, they are missing some of the sample material (we both remembered there was a "Birth of Venus" Boticelli pic there for instance)that came with them and even some vital files.
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Therefore here is my request : if anyone still has those disks and/or good copies, please let me or even better, let him know. You can send him a message on youtube (that's the only contact i have). On his youtube profile you can check one of the original animations he did back then : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqcawTaWqg. Looks pretty cool

Thanks in advance,

Larry

[Mug UK]

I think I've still got an original copy of Art / Film Director on the shelves. Will look later on.

[larrykoubiak]

Awesome

Thanks a lot!

[larrykoubiak]

Hello again,

i was just wondering if you found that software on your shelf

Take care,

Larry

[Mug UK]

It wasn't where it *should* be (along with all the other apps) but my spreadsheet says I own it so will have a look on the other shelves and inside the large plastic tubs

[Nyh]

Hello again,

i was just wondering if you found that software on your shelf

Google is you friend: http://www.doperoms.com/roms/atari_st/Art%2520Director%2520%25281988%2529%2528Epyx%2529.zip.html/31912/Art%20Director%20%281988%29%28Epyx%29.zip.html, http://www.doperoms.com/roms/atari_st/Film%2520Director%2520%25281988%2529%2528Epyx%2529.zip.html/31950/Film%20Director%20%281988%29%28Epyx%29.zip.html.

Hans Wessels

[larrykoubiak]

Thanks for the links Hans.

Unfortunately those are the same rom images i have, they are taken from the TOSEC collection and i'm afraid their rip is not complete.
They lack several files that i know came with the package, that's why i was looking for somebody who still had the originals.

Hope i'm not a pain in the ass

[Mug UK]

Found my Art Director .. mine's the UK Mirrorsoft edition. Will image it up tonight as I thought the ones above would be OK.

[Desty]

The concept demo of the Star Trek game is pretty impressive, and looks quite doable on the ST (albeit minus all the sampled sound ).

[Mug UK]

Here's the MSA files from my original disks.

[larrykoubiak]

Wow, this is exactly what i was looking for

Can't thank you enough Mug, and sorry if i caused you any trouble or back pain making you dig through old crates

I've sent that copy to Maurice Molyneux just now, hopefully he will craft some neat stuff with that.

Thanks a lot again!!!! I owe you a beer

[MauriceM]

Hey all. Larry told me he found the Art Director disc via this board, and so I thought I'd pop in and say thanks. What I'm trying to do is reconstruct the promotional video I was hired to do for the Epyx release of Art & FIlm Director, and, while I've managed to reconstruct almost 10 minutes of the video, I was missing some of the still images that appear during a demonstration of the Art Director features.

Some of those images are on the disc images that MugUK provided (grazie!), but I'm still missing some...which I suspect where on the 2nd disc of the Epyx release. If anyone's got that, I'd love to get my virtual hands on it.

Just to clarify, I wasn't the Art Director on Art Director. I used Art & Film Director products to make the Star Trek game demo, and when Broderbund's people saw it, they asked if I could do something like that to promote Art & Film Director, which they planned to publish.I was contracted for this purpose, and then Broderbund dropped the project and Epyx picked it up, I was retained to finish the video, with changes, for Epyx.

In addition to the video, I consulted on the manual and did most of the demo animations on the Epyx Film Director disc 1 (not the "Boy"). I don't recall what was on disc 2. I think there was a disc 2!

Anyway, as soon as I finish the complete reconstruction I'll post the video on YouTube and link to it here.

Thanks again.

Maurice

P.S. I recently posted some older animation there...this stuff predating the Star Trek demo, having been http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ghJXJR5zk done with MovieMaker on the 8-bits.

[Mug UK]

Glad I could help somewhere towards the goal. I think I know someone with the original of Film Director but they're not on here so will mention this elsewhere and see if they can dig their copy out.

I'm sure I've seen Art / Film Director occasionally popping up on eBay in the US (but it was a while ago when I used to look on there).