Filmation
Filmation Associates was a production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 to 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and principal producers were Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott.
History
Lou Scheimer and Filmation's main director Hal Sutherland met while working at Larry Harmon Pictures on the made-for-TV Bozo and Popeye cartoons. Eventually Larry Harmon closed the studio. Scheimer and Sutherland went to work at a small company called True Line, one of whose owners was Marcus Lipsky, who then owned Reddi-wip whipped cream. SIB Productions, a Japanese firm with U.S. offices in Chicago, approached them about producing a cartoon called Rod Rocket. The two agreed to take on the work and also took on a project for Family Films, owned by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, for ten short animated films based on the life of Christ. Paramount Pictures soon purchased SIB Productions, and True Line's staff increased, including the arrival of former radio disc jockey Norm Prescott, who became a partner in the firm. He had already been working on the animated feature Pinocchio in Outer Space which was primarily produced by Belvision Studios.
Filmation (game engine)
Filmation is the trademark name of the isometric graphics engine employed in a series of games developed by Ultimate Play The Game during the 1980s, primarily on the 8-bit ZX Spectrum platform, but various titles also appeared on the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms.
The Filmation engine allowed the creation of 3D flip-screen environments, ideally suited to platform-based arcade adventures. Player characters could move in four diagonal (from the player's perspective) directions, were able to jump over or onto obstacles, and could even push objects around the game environment.
Precursors
At least three games had used an isometric perspective before Filmation's first appearance in 1984; the arcade games Q*bert from Gottlieb and Zaxxon from Sega, (both 1982); and the ZX Spectrum title Ant Attack (1983) by Sandy White. Q*bert and Zaxxon have little else in common with Filmation, though Ant Attack was a platform game of similar style, and was the first of these games to feature an extra degree of freedom (the ability to move up and down as well and north, south, east and west). It was claimed by White that Ant Attack was "the first true isometric 3D game".
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Flowmotion
by: Bone Thugs-N-HarmonyFlow round by the wind
(Flowmotion)
Flow round by the wind
(Flowmotion)
Who is that ckun wit the tongue like the double edge sword?
Talkin' out the neck like we wouldn't push forward
But we murdered you *** and rap suckas, while you ***
And we leave our competition where there was none for us
*** got board back to the hood
With the thugs and fiends sold crack in the hood
Took my money and my trophies and my plaques to the hood
*** weren't goin' out Hollywood, not Bone
We keep it gutta thuggish, ruggish from the 99
My paper hustle been around the world a couple of times
Check the record, you can see I'm workin' double time
Give 'em something they can feel when I'm on the grind
Let the gangstas ride in the summa time
Shine real bright if you wanna get down
Let the top back slow, take a drag of the dro
Flippin' hard time now, you can burn that now
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
Try and keep up to the rhythm of the ***, really figga you handle
I?ll make you an example, sample
When I stomp on these, some *** at random
Clear mother mend the anotha to get the phantom family
See me and I got to run in hood, while they run around
They comin' at cha wit a sound like thunder
Strike like lightin', hit 'em and they wonder where they at
Now all them thuggish, ruggish *** come from Bone, Bone
Never be anotha that can *** wit them Thug brothas
They all the same, they talk a lot but never got the balls to play
Better not look at all this weight
No not this way
But if they ever fizzle to the gristle
Blow the whistle on the Swizzle, it's official
And we back to get it crackin' in the middle of the action
We got you in flowmotion
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
Point your fist, pull your pistol, put ch'ya finger in the middle
I'am show you how to disrespect a issue, f***
Let me loose, *** a lawsuit, I gotta get 'em lay 'em up
Some where, we cap spinnin', you ain't get it
Hospital rehab
He alright, one to the chest, to the knee cap
I?ma keep it raw so you know you better back off
Swish said get 'em so you know we 'bout to bite chyaw
FS stepped up, fear when we roll up
Everybody roll up, everybody toast up
Get it twist a ***, pay attention to when you leave
Wit your grill-less and feelings hurt and shirt fulla dirt
***, we work wit witch-it
I?ma busta *** be first
Back again gotta be heard
Had an intermission but it's over
It's over, back the flowmotion on em'
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flowmotion)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Flow)
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'
(Round by the wind)
I flow when I go in flo' mo'
I flow, flow when I go in flo' mo'