Early CGI Was Horrifying
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Published 2022-04-07
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All Comments (21)
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Imagine being the guy who invented cgi only to moments later have countless bowling ally owner’s knocking down your door demanding a piece of this new technology
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It’s easier for me to appreciate Veggie Tales now since you realize that in the beginning it was just four college dropouts working on one computer. Even if it looks crappy now, it looks incredible for 90s standards
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5 years from now “Early AI was horrifying”
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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.
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Imagine if there was a horror movie that would end up taking advantage of this type of CGI, it would be very interesting honestly
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You know, the fact people thought that the moon landings were CGIs when the CGIs looked like THIS even after 1970s is kind of funny. Edit: The main arguement is that it staged sorta like a live action movie set, but some people actually believe it was CGI.
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I love how for toy story, the animations of the toys were a bit staccato due to technical limitations, but in the later movies they kept it as a stylistic choice.
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Growing up with early cgi is what got me into psychedelics.
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The strongest CGI fan vs the weakest Claymation enjoyer
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A lot of the best CGI animations took their technical limitations and ran with them. Surfaces look like plastic? Make your movie about plastic toys. Animations are robotic and clunky? Make your characters robots or AI. The world seems artificial and computer-generated? Set your whole story in a virtual world inside a computer.
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As someone who lived through this time as a child I can say that even though the graphics were crude they looked incredible and inspiring. I knew by the time I was an adult that they would improve immensely. I remember going to an early imax theater in a museum and watching a 20-30 minute movie all done with grids and triangles and feeling like I was witnessing something incredible
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That demo from the 70s with the purple guy with the uncle Sam hat is amazing! I would have NEVER guessed that was made in the 70s. That's truly amazing.
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I love old CGI. It was so weird and surreal and dreamlike but now it just replicates reality
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imagine spending your life studying, educating yourself and working tirelessly to push the bounds of technology only for some youtuber who just learned about the uncanny valley to call it the most terrifying thing anyone can see
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Early CGI really went hard on the "haunted circus" aesthetic.
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27:08 the sound disappears for a bit.
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It's funny how I can see the vaporware aesthetic was so influenced by 80s animation and its limitations.
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if you were around when it was emerging you'd know it was the most fantastic thing any of us had ever seen. there was no concept yet of "good" or "bad" CG. it was just magic
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To be honest, "Andrè and Wally B" from 1986 looks really beautiful to me. Simple, dreamy, smooth, something I would like to expect from a TV show for little kids.
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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.
