History of Computer Animation

History of Computer Animation

[@PatWizard]

Something is so special about 3D cgi from the 80s

[@AnvilClank]

The simplicity the lighting and the reflection style

[@blenderbachcgi]

And I'm on a mission to recreate it these days on my KZbin channel!

[@WELLINGTON20]

Well if you don’t know what’s special about it then you clearly dont

[@constantinosschinas4503]

70s...

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Very geometrical shapes and stark, simplistic lighting (Diffuse bounces? What are those?). Flat surfaces with no bump mapping, often quite shiny.

[@CAPSKA_8492]

Now we can do all of this in real-time, on a laptop, with ray-traced graphics, in 1080p and at a very high framerate... This should've sounded like an alien technology for the time

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Ray-traced still doesn’t quite work in real time, though.

[@carso1500]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 not with millions or billions of lines of light like in a more powerful program, but a lot can be accomplished

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

@@carso1500 Seems the best RTX can manage is about 2 or 3 samples per pixel. That’s it.

[@fododude]

I love how they needed a NASA computer, running all night, for each frame. Brute force. When I saw the Black Hole in the theater, I went home and tried to draw that computer funnel.

[@catstorm26]

I feel like this is more of an advertisement for Able and Associates itself. This is like making an animation history documentary using only Disney films.

[@theMF69]

Funny how my phone would be considered a supercomputer back then

[@henriksundt7148]

Even in the 90s, an iPhone of today would be regarded as a supercomputer (faster than Cray)

[@animatedbelle5112]

Why no mention of “A Computer Animated Hand” from the students of Utah University in 1972?

[@ApolosaCakau]

Probably classified at the time? 🤷‍♀️

[@henriksundt7148]

@@ApolosaCakau I don't think so, as it was featured in a movie some years later (Futureworld, 1976)

[@Hulktom2000]

Ed Catmull did that

[@nuvaboy]

3:20 holy shit, they had MoCap! Amazing!

[@tinypanda2208]

wOW they really made amazing and beautiful things using the technology they had ;;

[@Dan_213]

imagine how hard it was to model and animate 3d graphics with just code

[@angeldelaverdad3122]

5:03 Now this days in 2020 BOSTON dynamics and handsome robótics are creating this robots in mass

[@Meteotrance]

Thanks for that, yes Robert Abel and Associate was pionneer on CG

[@LuisRodriguez-gt9hx]

5:56 Wow, we went from a guy in his underwear, to a guy in his grey pajamas. 🤯 Someday they will be wearing street clothes.

[@krmiistudios2479]

And to think that the early 3D film never got credit for the birth of 3D they say it tron

[@irs535]

The 60s was the first android 40 years later android came out with the touch screen pen. Were living in old times

[@TheVoiceOfChaos]

in eight gruiling weeks. me who cant animate in less than a month: "what!"

[@AbidalSh]

why this feels like it's a 100 years old

[@GoemonLovesFujiko]

because you're a kid..

[@AbidalSh]

John Hawthorn bruh, im 23, idk, maybe am still a kid to you, old man

[@GoemonLovesFujiko]

Abidal Sh Yep.. Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

[@GoemonLovesFujiko]

not quite but old enough

[@tinypanda2208]

I FEEL THAT WAY TOO IT SCARES ME IT'S LIKE LOOKINGATT DINOSAURS

[@Cooliostuff]

AMAZING!

[@TMC3Official]

Its amazing!

[@Cooliostuff]

TMC 3 ok srsly dude? HOW!?

[@TMC3Official]

Cooliostuff We have the same mind

[@Cooliostuff]

TMC 3 lol

[@mtnnoonan]

Does anyone know what year this was released?

[@awicks6976]

2000

[@mtnnoonan]

@@awicks6976 Thank you.

[@faeriepalace]

the visuals in this are amazinggggg

[@Lurker1979]

To think what we can do now with real time 3d animation in games.

[@hashanfernando]

Wow. Phenomenal 👏👏👏👏👏

[@BryonLape]

Not sure how this completely skips Tron.

[@SotraEngine4]

And now Rhythm & Hues is gone

[@johnsimon8457]

Oooooof! Every damn marvel movie has vfx down to the lowest bidder.

[@whenethatopeisathismomshou3706]

the computer, is, my brain

[@ewinwink48]

Without a mouse right? Damn

[@AlexMagma]

which documentary is this from?

[@kmibrlnd]

Vaporwave

[@chrislaw4958]

Hmm. All those phallus' at a strange moment. 4.10 on

[@ffsForgerFortySeven.9154]

I am not sure but I swear my own PC said wow halfway through.... jokes

[@georginajovanovic]

they asked disney...

[@kamilm.7650]

Cannot believe 1987 ?

[@zac-7627]

1:52

[@nintendo_adventure_offical]

Well. I am animated channel on KZbin and tiktok. So...

[@7karlheinz]

Digital animation ruined artistic animation, blandsville!

[@astrid6048]

Vectors are still beter

[@astrid6048]

I mean raster...

[@DerangedMallard]

Editing comments is a thing

[@FeroxX_Gosu]

Textures were definetly a game changer! :)

[@romanfox5368]

This sounds like it was from the show "Movie Magic" I remember watching it as a kid.

[@AnvilClank]

2:48 tHe bOTTom LiP loOks A LIttLe THICC

[@meppensued]

3:38 was this like early motion tracking

[@AltimaNEO]

Eat your heart out, Avatar

[@inzane86]

The black hole was not the first film to incorporate computer generated effects, Westworld was.

[@pancudowny]

How so?

[@dlrowreverse793]

Actually the first one was the opening credit sequence of Vertigo (1958)

[@Orsi_dzsonzonoshy]

They said: "One of the first uses", not the first but you are right Westworld used 2-D computer-generated images, the precursor to CGI earlier in 1973, and the Blackhole intro is from 1979. However, the first 3-D CGI was used in Westworld's sequel, Futureworld (1976). I think in this report the angle was the influence of the advertisement industry on CGI so that is why they brought up the Blackhole intro. Indeed, commercial companies had a significant role in maintaining CGI. In the late 70s and early 80s using 3D CGI extensively in films remained a dream. The movie industry did not believe in CGI that was considered risky and expensive. Meantime, CGI short formats worked well for TV with its 30-second commercials and program openers.

[@flaguser4196]

anyone knows who the mocap model is? asking for research purposes.

[@AAvfx]

So cool! Thank you ❤️

[@polysteveshusbandandboyfri644]

This is so cool imo

[@eliasfelixgonzalez4185]

is a cool video

[@allanduncan1861]

Looking creepy I thought 90s 3D was bad but this is worse

[@OneHundredAndNineYears]

Oooh so intresting

[@tomsimpson5317]

I remember seeing these and it was amazing

[@RaquelSantos-99]

4:58

[@aungmyinthu8239]

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