How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
06-28-2011, 11:50 AM
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I'm not sure I'd call it "computer animation" per se, but the scenes showing a pixellated display as the android's point-of-view were done by Information International, Inc., by taking film originals, performing optical color separation, scanning the three resultant B&W slides per frame, pixellating them, and then re-composting them back to 70mm color film.
Triple-I, as they are known, later went on to create the Foonly F-1 (an extremely hot-rodded clone of a PDP-10) which was used to create much of the CGI in TRON.
Pop Quiz #2: What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature an animated, three-dimensional computer graphic?
I'm not sure I'd call it "computer animation" per se, but the scenes showing a pixellated display as the android's point-of-view were done by Information International, Inc., by taking film originals, performing optical color separation, scanning the three resultant B&W slides per frame, pixellating them, and then re-composting them back to 70mm color film.
Triple-I, as they are known, later went on to create the Foonly F-1 (an extremely hot-rodded clone of a PDP-10) which was used to create much of the CGI in TRON.
Pop Quiz #2: What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature an animated, three-dimensional computer graphic?
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06-28-2011, 12:23 PM
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I've found some conflicting information regarding The Andromeda Strain (1971) as well. Robert Abel & Associates (another CG pioneer which also contributed to TRON) are credited with visual effects, however most sources indicate that the "computer graphics" in this film were produced conventionally and then passed through a telecine process.
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