An LWT ident made by Electronic Arts

Gijs Bannenberg, a Dutch animator who worked at a company called Electronic Arts in London in the early 80s, has started uploading some of his old work on YouTube.

Apparently, Electronic Arts produced LWT's 1983 ident, and Mr Bannenberg was the animator. A clean version can be seen below, along with some additional graphics:



Electronic Arts also produced this elaborate ident for Rediffusion Starview:



More here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbI7oeyEbng9cvLj6dwFjl-6mmBChkpK&feature=c4-feed-u

Man that music sucks.

Is this the same Electronics Art's that now produces The Sims games?

Worth noting that this is a different Electronic Arts to the 'EA' we know today.

Thank goodness lwt revised the music!

We believe this come in early 83 just after invison disappeared.

Does anyone know what kind of kit these will have been produced on? I know the Quantel Paintbox was out by then, but I didn't think it was possible to do animation until later models (the Harry?).

Again I think The Mirage was available by then, but I though that was more about realtime manipulation of an incoming video signal.

I'm quite interested in the history of computerised TV graphics! I'd love to get my hands on some of these early machines, DVEs etc.

This Electronic Arts (originally called "Video Animation") was a pioneering computer animation studio set up in the 70s by animation scriptwriter Stan Hayward and a few others. They produced several computer-animated title sequences in the 70s and 80s.

The video description on YouTube says the LWT ident was produced with MOVIE.BYU. A quick Google search suggests this is an ancient 3D animation software developed in 1978.

Thanks Thinker. I should really learn to read

Once you've mastered reading, there's a lovely book called Creative Computer Graphics about the history of computer animation. Lots of pictures and anoraky technical information. It was issued in 1984 and is out of print, but one can probably borrow it at the library or buy it on Amazon for next to nothing.

The poster of those vids, what a great career he's had some amazing work there.

Here is what it ended up being

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