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Rendering Of A Planned Highway
In 1960, a 30-second vector animation of a car traveling down a planned highway at 110 km/h was created at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology on the BESK computer. The short animation was broadcast on November 9, 1961 on national television. -
Hummingbird
A ten-minute computer animated film by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer. This was awarded a prize at the 4th annual International Experimental Film Competition in Brussels, Belgium and in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The subject was a line drawing of a hummingbird for which a sequence of movements appropriate to the bird were programmed. Over 30,000 images comprising some 25 motion sequences were generated by the computer. -
Kitty
A group of Russian mathematicians and physicists headed by N. Konstantinov created a mathematical model of a moving cat. A program was made for the computer BESM-4. The computer then printed hundreds of frames to be later converted to film -
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This is an experimental 2D animated short drawn on a data tablet by Peter Foldes, who used the world's first key frame animation software, invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein. -
A Computer Animated Hand
Produced by Ed Catmull, the short demonstrates a computer animated hand, as well as human faces. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011. -
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The Six Million Dollar Man
First television series to use CGI in the intro. -
Westworld
First use of 2D computer animation in a significant entertainment feature film. The point of view of Yul Brynner's gunslinger was achieved with raster graphics. -
Faces (Faces & Body Parts)
Fred Parke's thesis film on facial modeling at the University of Utah. -
Great
The Oscar-winning 1975 short animated film about the life of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel contains a brief sequence of a rotating wire-frame model of Brunel's final project, the iron steam ship SS Great Eastern. -
Futureworld
First use of 3D computer graphics for animated hand and face. Used 2D digital compositing to materialize characters over a background. -
Star Wars
Used an animated 3D wire-frame graphic for the trench run briefing sequence. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989. -
The Black Hole
Used raster wire-frame model rendering for the open credits depicting a 3D wireframe of a black hole. -
Alien
Used raster wire-frame model rendering for navigation monitors in the landing sequence. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002.