1960s
· Initial experimentation with 3D graphics.
· john mcarthy develops the LISP programming language for A.I applications
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boeing in seattle made a 3d animation of an aircraft carrier landing withe plotteddrawings by william fetter and w. bernhart
1970s
· Many animation and rendering algorithms used today were developed in the 1970s
· Image and bump textures developed
· Hand and face animation improvements
· First use of 3D CGI in movies
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robert abel and associates opens, fred i parke creates animated faces at the university of utah
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at the university of utah ed catmul devloped an animation scripting language and created an animation of a smooth shaded hand. meanwhile fred parke created the first computer generated face animation. MAGI animated computer rendered polygonal objects.
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Hunger/la faim the short film was realesed made using interactive keyframes
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a computer group opens at george lucas’ industrial light abd magic
1980s
· Raytracing5 rendering developed
· Video became most common output method for animation
· ‘Tron’ was the first movie with more than 20 minutes of digital graphics (1982)
· The mid to late 80s saw a huge growth in the use of digital graphics in movies and advertising
· Luxo Jr. (Pixar, 1985) was the first computer-generated animation to be nominated for an academy award
· ‘Tin Toy’ (Pixar, 1988 ) was first to win an academy award
· Particle systems6 animation developed
- light, fog, rain and sky was created at hiroshima university
- blue sky studios opened in new york
- side effects software opened in toronto (developers of houdini)
- locomotion was made, a short film by pacific images, is an early example of squash and stretch.
1990s
- disneys ‘aladdin’ is their first film to contain a fully computer animated character.
- ‘jurassic park’ sets the standard for creating realistic living creatures
- ‘Toy story’ was realeased to huge commercial and critical success and is the first full-length
2000
- the debut of playstation2, xbox and gamecube boosted the quantity and quality of 3d animation being produced
- ‘final fantasy:spirits within’ was made, first fully 3d animated fature film to contain cg actors. technically brilliant.
- Next generation of consoles, Xbox360 and playstation 3 boosts 3d animation to its limits
