The History Of CGI

By fishty639
  • Who Made CGI

    Who Made CGI

    The people behind the CGI are Fred Parke and Edwin Catmull They invented it in 1973

  • First 3D computer graphics

    west world was not just influential it also inspired the squeal to future world
  • The First 3D animation was made

    The First 3D animation was made

    One of the first CGI was Futureworld in 1973 which included an animation of a human face and a hand that had originally appeared in the 1972 experimental short A Computer Animated Hand
    This is a link to the first 3D animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5seU-5U0ms
  • First physically textured CGI

    First physically textured CGI

    Jurassic Park’s first glimpse of the huge tree eating Brontosaurus as its 27th most magical moment in cinema history. There was 14 mins of the films with the Brontosaurus but only 4 mins where total CGI
  • First full-length CG film

    First full-length CG film

    From what google tells me the first Animated movie was toy story
  • First large-scale CG battle scenes

    First large-scale CG battle scenes

    Starship Troopers was also nominated for a Best Visual Effects Oscar they might have won it not for Titanic’s sailaway success that year.The movie ended up being a box office flop weighed down but its 100m+ budget
  • First photo-realistic human actors

    First photo-realistic human actors

    The first CGI human was not Gollum or the polar express conductor but Dr Aki Ross from the heroine of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s it was all CGI
  • Facial capture

    Facial capture

    The movie Avatar was one of the first movies that used facial capture,