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Dick Van Dyke isn't just a legendary actor and dancer. He was also a devoted Commodore Amiga user. He bought his first Amiga in 1991, got hooked on LightWave 3D and the Video Toaster, and started making his own 3D animations and effects at home. He even used that... show more
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Video below shows the effect Dick Van Dyke created on his Amiga in the 1990's for an episode of Diagnosis: Murder-

I remember seeing him on the NewTek stage at SIGGRAPH in 2003 talking about Lightwave 3D and showing this animation. Best part was afterward, when he stepped down and gladly took photos with anyone…including me! 🤗

Dick Van Dyke has a Video Toaster? I need a better computer.

lowkey getting hooked on lightwave 3d in 1991 is peak legend behavior fr

Garth agrees 😀

This is insane to me. What are you going to tell me next, George Clooney is an avid Morrowind modder?

That's amazing you could create something like that on an Amiga!

incredibly insane that the guy who had large multiple mainstream tv shows, legendary film roles and offered to replacing Sean Connery as JAMES BOND in the mid 20th century was an adopter of early CGi technology.

@ABAOProductions I do remember Wil Wheaton headlining the huge Toaster exhibit at NAB way back, when we purchased our first Avid. He was on fire.

You scared me. I had to check his wiki page still said "is" and not "was" (Yes, that is genuinely how I check for celebrity obituaries)

I seem to recall it took about a day to render one frame…

🤯

I used to have an Amiga computer. It was way ahead of its time.

lowkey the burning chopper shot with that grey sky has real blockbuster energy

Oh wow. I did not know that.

@scifiscarbs

What a national treasure




