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Watch Hummingbird here. A 10 minute computer animated film by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer. Timetoast does not have a ?? option for date. Release date was sometime in 1968.
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Watch it here A group of Russian scientists lead by N.Konstantinov created a model of a moving cat. A computer then printed hundreds of frames to be later converted to film. Date: ?/??/1968
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Drawn on a data tablet. Used the world's first key frame animation software.
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First use of 2D computer animation in a significant movie. The point of view of Yul Brynner's gunslinger was created with raster graphics.
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First use of CGI for animated hand and face.
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Star Wars was the first time an animated wireframe graphics -a 3D model- was used.
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First film with a computer-generated title sequence.
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Used raster wire-frame model rendering for navigation monitors in the landing sequence.
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ILM computer graphics creates "Genesis Effect", The first use of fractal-generated landscape in a movie. New graphics technique created called Particle Systems.
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First extensive use of 3D CGI -the famous Light Cycle sequence. Very early facial animation for the master control program
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First animated film to use computer graphics. Canadian.
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The first computer generated music video made. The video used CGI to illustrate the songs lyrics and was one of the first uses of CGI human characters. The animators later went on to found the Rainmaker Animation studio which created ReBoot, the first CGI series.
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First animated movie with CGI-effects.
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The first use of a realistic CGI animal - the owl in the opening credits. Also an early use of green screen.
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The first 3D morphing use. First use of Cyberware 3D scanner. The 3D scanner produced the disembodied heads of Leonard Nimoy and WIlliam Shatner as cyber-sculptures.
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Used the first all-digital composite, used to show the rapid aging and death of Walter Donovan.
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First digital 3D water effect.
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First realistic human movements on a CGI character.The first partially computer-generated main character & the first movie to have multiple morphing effects. First use of a PC to create major 3D effects.
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First realistic CG creatures.
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The first half-hour, completely animated tv show. Also it was Canadian.
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Toy Story was the first fully computer animated movie ever created.
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First 2D all-CGI backgrounds with live actors.
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First wide-release feature film with major elements rendered with the Linux operating system. Included many improvements, mostly in the rendering of flowing water.
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First use of CG interpolation in Bullet Time effects. Bullet Time refers to the slowed-down rotating action sequences. CG interpolation was used to enhance actors on wires filmed with motion capture and still cameras shooting from all angles.
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Motion capture was used in order to achieve "a menacing and very realistic Mummy". A combination of live action and computer graphics were used to create the mummy.
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First feature-length digital film to be made based on photorealism and live action principles. The first theatrically released movie to utilize motion capture for all of the character's motions.
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First use of AI(Artificial Intelligence) for digital actors. Gollum was the first photorealistic motion captured character for a film. A motion capture suit recorded movements that were then applied to the digital character
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The first film to use motion captured character technology for every actor in the movie.
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Entirely made in CGI, features motion capture for all actors & had realism as its foremost goal. Largest team ever assembled for an Imageworks-produced movie. New animation tools for facial, body, and cloth design were created especially for the movie. Elements of keyframe animation were incorporated into the movie to capture the facial expressions of the actors.
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First full length movie made using performance-capture to create photo-realistic 3D characters & to feature a fully CG 3D photo-realistic world. The first Virtual Art Department and complete Virtual Production pipeline was developed to create it in real-time.
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First use of CGI in a live broadcoast.
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First movie to use computer graphics to create realistic human characters.
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First use of CGI in a full length movie filmed at a High Frame Rate.
