Like really, they fumbled that whole concept so hard… a competent marketing department could made Cortana in basically the professional version of Hatsune Miku.
Yeah! It was a bunch of different gifs! Maybe … 128x128 px at 12 or 24 fps, something like that?
He’d make ‘facial expressions’, and move around… looked kinda like Veggie Tales style animation.
And there was more than just Clippy, he was just the default. There was like… an Einstein look a like… a dog… I think there were at least 8 different little mascot type things, to go along with the actual ‘speech bubble’ style, actual user interface.
I remember just fucking around with this shit in the early 00s, in the computer lab.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
TBH she wouldn’t have even needed big booba.
Just… even just an animated face mesh.
Like really, they fumbled that whole concept so hard… a competent marketing department could made Cortana in basically the professional version of Hatsune Miku.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clippy had fucking animations? That’s wild.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah! It was a bunch of different gifs! Maybe … 128x128 px at 12 or 24 fps, something like that?
He’d make ‘facial expressions’, and move around… looked kinda like Veggie Tales style animation.
And there was more than just Clippy, he was just the default. There was like… an Einstein look a like… a dog… I think there were at least 8 different little mascot type things, to go along with the actual ‘speech bubble’ style, actual user interface.
I remember just fucking around with this shit in the early 00s, in the computer lab.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I knew it had animations, just not fucking animations.