First Cat Animation
In 1968
was made a model of a moving cat across
a screen. A program was made for a specialized computer called BESM-4
Big Success
The 1977 movie became a huge box office
hit and became an inspiration for many CGI effects that followed.
Huge Step
2009 – 2012
Films with big box office money
Script for the presentation it self(the part that should be learned)
Many movies using CGI effects follwed soon after Star Wars: A New Hope which showed the real potention and mind boggling possibilities of computer-generated imagery. Superman: The Movie (1978) conceived the first computer-generated title sequence. The movies Alien (1979) and Black Hole (1979) pushed the boundaries of CGI further by conceiving 3D wireframe rasters that created more detailed CGI effects.
For the origins of computer-generated
imagery (CGI) we need to go back to the year 1968. In this year
a group of Russian mathematicians and physicists headed by N.Konstantinov
created a mathematical model of a moving cat across a screen. A program was
made for a specialized computer called BESM-4. The computer printed hundreds of
frames to be later converted into usable film material.
The first 3D computer-generated imagery was
created in the film Futureworld in 1976. In a scene the hand and
face of the actor was enhanced with the use CGI. Futureworld used 2D
digital compositing to materialize characters over the background.
After these first steps into discovering the possibilites of CGI a probably
familiar man named George Lucas saw it’s possibilities. George Lucas conceived
the popular Star Wars franchise which made use of top edge CGI effects at
the time and many that were never seen before. The 1977 movie became a huge box
office hit and became an inspiration for many CGI effects that followed.Many movies using CGI effects follwed soon after Star Wars: A New Hope which showed the real potention and mind boggling possibilities of computer-generated imagery. Superman: The Movie (1978) conceived the first computer-generated title sequence. The movies Alien (1979) and Black Hole (1979) pushed the boundaries of CGI further by conceiving 3D wireframe rasters that created more detailed CGI effects.
Many breakthroughs followed as we entered
the realm of photo realistic CGI effects. The last years computer generated
imagery has almost become the standard in any feature film that hits the
cinema’s. In 2009 the best selling movie of all time, Avatar, pushed CGI to yet
a higher level, creating a movie that was fully made with performance capture,
transforming the actors into photo realistic 3D characters.
As we move forward toward the future of CGI
it is for sure computer-generated imagery effects will improve further. With
computer power constantly advancing CGI will do the same. I am looking forward
to the near future of CGI, especially to the prequel to the Lord of the Rings:
The Hobbit that is being made as we speak. Having a scheduled release
in December 2012 I believe the movie will hold some interesting CGI
techniques for us. I wonder what CGI spectacle we can admire in the coming
years, I hope it will be as interesting as it has been so far.
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