Early CGI Was Horrifying

"Someday, people will be able to use this to make videos of video game characters getting piped..."

"Whats a video game?"

Imagine inventing CGI only to have it used to make video game characters dog each other in source filmmaker. Isn’t technology neat.

I swear man, Matrix really was skimping resources on those old American scientists' records, they all sound the same lol

Maybe it is a stupid question, but: where did you found the thumbnail pic?

Do video games count as CGI?

I usually like to think of games like "Spacewar!", "Pong" and "Pacman" as early forms of CGI, but I am not sure if this is strictly correct.

"The waves move in a very mathematical fashion" is now one of my favourite quotes.

Is it because I skimmed, or did he never mention the Money for Nothing music video?

Always makes me laugh seeing CGI from the 70s and then listening to flat earthers claiming chunks of the moon landing footage and the blue marble picture etc were all CGI.

You're like the CG version of Civvie <3

I wonder if people in the 70's and 80's thought these test demos were as creepy as we think they are now

you can really SMELL the lead they where huffing in gas fumes at the time

Why did you put a VHS filter over all the early footage? It kinda ruined it tbh.

I was there, it was fucking fascinating. It wasn't terrifying at all. It was very exciting. Don't look at the past through today's lens. Imagine having never seen any computer graphics and then you saw that. It was a big fucking deal. Get over it , Gameboy.

I think the main issue with a lot of these early CGI attempts is that real artists weren't involved a lot of the time, and computer engineers came up with the video ideas and did all of the artistry. You can tell which CGI animations had traditional artists involved.

Personally, I find Early Computer Animations as a pinnacle at its time. I mostly call it "Abstract CGI" b/c of the unusual polygons, appearances, etc.

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The dumb pun in the name, the degenerate, creepy animation and shitposty vibe of "Polly Gone" let's see if it was made by ashkenazim.

first ever shit-post… 💀

so nostalgic

that was friggin freddy faxbear

Moun 10
Enunciate your Ts.

But we thought it was cool at the time

Oh, and: "knockoff Trent Reznor"–it couldn't have been knockoff Trent Reznor, because Trent Reznor wasn't Trent Reznor yet. He still had the moussed up hair in Cleveland or wherever he was.

Not Common Gateway Interface😁

Another thing they did not have in the early 80s was guys trying to sound like ALF.

what a terrible speaking cadence, good luck

I remember a lot of these tech demos between cartoons growing up. It's amazing how far we've come.

I’m not sure who the purple man in the intro is but he looks like a very kind, caring individual

It's actually Computer Generated Imagery, not images.

Awesome deep dive. Reminded me of 'Outside In', that short about how to turn a sphere inside out. It's cheesy, but I watch it every time it comes up in my recommended.
Ever seen Hypernauts? It was a '90s kids show by the Babylon 5 people (same universe I think?), and even though some of the CGI looks pretty '90s-tastic, a lot of it holds up.

Epic video!!

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Masons, it's always the Masons.

The fact that this groundbreaking technology has come so far that it can nowadays be used by the common man like you and I to animate Patrick Star dancing to "Como te voy a olvidar?" has got to be one of the greatest testaments to human ingenuity.

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those look better than my models

In the mid 80's I tired playing with cgi on my 4.77 mhz IBM clone....It was painful, but fun....

One of, if not my first experience with CGI came from a VHS called "Elroy's Toy", which is compilation of scenes, two of which "High Fidelity" and "Breaking the Ice" were mentioned in this video. It remains as one of my oldest memories.

"Botco. Tomorrow's Fuels, Tomorrow's Prices." -Total Recall 1990.