Kitty. - N.Konstantinov.

[thearbiter221]

ive seen hummingbird (1967) but thats sombody drawing not animation so i still say this is the first

[TaylorPlacePro]

This kinda creeps me out...

[frogboner]

where are the two girls? where is the cup?

[TechKon1]

First CGI Animation Ever.

[bufanpxl8r]

@TechKon1 Second

[thearbiter221]

may not look like much but it is the first cgi

[bufanpxl8r]

@thearbiter221 Second

[ridz216]

Kitty 1968 A group of Russian mathematicians and physicists headed by N.Konstantinov created a mathematic model of a moving cat. A program was made for the computer BESM-4. The computer then printed hundreds of frames to be later converted to film.

[treatachewz]

whats going on look at this.. justin b vid i put on my pr0fiIe

[brashearlarryd]

Ok, this is the beginnings of true digital animation. The fact that it comes from the USSR during 1968, and that there was no human animation (all mathematics) is quite a feat. This is essentially where we got started. It's amazing that we now have come so far as to create full 3D photo realistic movies within a matter of a couple decades. Bravo for the post.

[NowhereMan1966]

I think Xerox PARC Labs had a similar type animated demo about the same time as this when they demonstrated the first mouse and video conferencing. This film is very amazing and makes the point that the Russians and Soviets also had great engineers and scientists who were very creative. The communist system at the time wasn't the greatest place for innovation at times, but it proves that you cannot stop human creativity. Plus I love cats too. B-)

[ut2k4wikichici]

This... IS really amazing!

[27lilmisssunshine]

awesome!

[victorinoxical]

This simple animation was the product of some of the most brilliant minds in the world. And to think that this was the technological level that sent people to the moon really speaks volumes about human ingenuity. Pixar, meet your great, great, great, grand uncle!

[hitcher809]

weak!

[blakerobertss]

@hitcher809 considering its 1968, no, its fucking amazing.

[nikomof]

always kittens.

always those danm kittens

[akualung]

It's kind of disturbing, lol

[TheQuinch]

Wow. Oldschool CGI.

[GreatLebowski]

mad skills

[Bueller007]

ENDUT.

Hoch hech.

[chrisarchitect]

@Bueller007 was totally thinking that too. well done.

[phdecora]

there is another posting of this vid with a link to the original paper by the creators. they apparently used differential equations of motion to generate the movement. this is more than interpolation and more than rotoscoping. very very ahead of its time.

[spleenblender]

Computer doing linear algebra in 3d printed to a 2d projection. The computing power to do this in 1968 with tracking the joints and filling the larger model is quite impressive indeed.

[iaoth]

@q335r49 Read the description.

[q335r49]

Listen people: computer generated pictures usually imply: some model of the subject, some method of projecting that model, some algorithm (even something as simple as a line-drawing algorithm), some abstraction of motion, some consideration of overlapping, etc. etc. etc. This is "computer generated" only in the most trivial of senses. Somebody needs to crack open a computer graphics/computer modeling textbook.

[q335r49]

Ummm... I wouldn't call replacing a human animator with a dot matrix printer that impressive at all. It wasn't computer modeling, since all the images were "typed" by hand. I wouldn't call, somebody painstakingly typing a bunch of letters in the shape of a cat, on a computer, then printing it out, the taking a picture of it, "computer generated".

This was done by a few grad students back in 1968 with too much spare time. I hope you realize that 1968 was the year Planet of the Apes came out.

[duckstreet]

@q335r49 that's not what this is about.

they didn't "type" all the images by hand. they created a skeletal model of the cat and mathematically animated it. most likely they inputted key frames of the animation, and the computer interpolated the entire animation scene and outputted the resulting "images".

then they printed THOSE images! the ones the computer generated!

[SuperSexyCommando]

try reading for once instead of smelling ur own ass

"created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer "BESM-4"."

UR fucking idiot.

[phdecora]

i am trying to post this again b/c youtube comments seem to be messed up.

there is another posting of this vid that inks to the original paper by the creators. they used differential equations to simulate the motion of the cat. it is not rotoscoping and not keyfame animation... it is true simulation, and far far ahead of its time.

[phdecora]

youtube comments still messed up... attempt 3 to write this. accoding to the authors (in another link) they used diff. eq. to simulate the cat motion, its not rotoscope and not keyframe animation

[njetblaj]

@q335r49 Are you sure the animation sequence in it self isn't actually computer generated..?

[phdecora]

this is absolutely fascinating, but i think you might want to ease up on the claims of 'first computer animation ever'. ie, look up Sketchpad from 1963.

but the "mathematical Modeling of a cat's motion"... that is more likely to be a first, and extremely ahead of its time. most early computer animation that i know of simply had human animators moving digital pictures... however this appears to be generating movement data based on equations of motion.

[q335r49]

@phdecora Dear god, no -- this was most certain not "generated" by some algorithm of cat motion. There was no computer model of a cat anywhere, no ragdoll physics, no consideration of clipping, no ray-tracing, no Breshnev line algorithm, etc. etc. etc. It was just a dude who painstaking typed up pictures of a cat, letter by letter.

[joonpoorro]

Quite an amazing feat for 1968.

[Tia1ko]

@joonpoorro: It's more like an amazing feat for 1968's USSR. In the 1968's west, the ray tracing technique was just being exploited for the first time.

[joonpoorro]

@Tia1ko, thinking about it, you're right, one year after we got Unix, and a man on the moon. I meant it amazing as an artistic hackish feat. The way they did a movement algorithm, printed and pictured to create one cool computer generated vintage animation.

[q335r49]

Steamboat Mickey came out 40 years earlier, in 1928. This is far from impressive.

[alexicoff]

Oh I wasn't aware that stemaboat mickey was computer generated

[afdh17]

Did you even read the description?

This video stands for something completely different, the actual animation (or its quality, that as you correctly point is not comparable to the one used in Steamboat Willie) is the most unimportant reason why this is amazing. As "everyonesvoice" said "this might be the first computer animation of any sort in history"; there's the deal.

[NamedMob]

So. . . this is what started lolcat then?

[robcat2075]

That's impressive. I don't think there was anything else quite like that in 1968.

[everyonesvoice]

This sort of video is the reason I come to youtube. This might be the first computer animation of any sort in history! Thank you so much for posting this. I almost never comment on YouTube videos, but I had to thank you for this one.

[MarkP0rter]

i couldnt agree more

[IlersichProductions]

@everyonesvoice actually, hummingbird, made in 1967, was the first. still, i agree, this is very significant.

[bufanpxl8r]

@everyonesvoice Second actually