UP - "The Kitte" - 1967 Computer Animation

[GalufTheInvincible]

the first ever nyan cat

[Duvmasta]

The original LOLcat!

[theotherguy245689]

nya nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nya nyan...

[Jennibot1]

LOL if that was the real audio an it was POTC :P

[Serjant2009]

да советские компьютеры самые компьютерные компьютеры в мире!!!

[idividedbyzer0]

Even the first computer animation was of a cat. What is it about cats and computers? xD

[Hotshotter3000]

@idividedbyzer0 Cats are the official mascot of the internet. Even before Lolcats made their way in, the internet was still full of cute kitty pictures to make people go 'awwww'. It was only later that they thought it was funnier to add some captions and ten booutsher teh Inglish langueyge...

[Geocidal1024]

Good old soviet engineering. Those old Russian phones could kill man if dropped.

[DougMcDave]

Yarrrr....the music is from Pirates of the Carribean, matey!

[TheFinlandnator]

Begemot?!

[HK379]

made in USSR ...

[SilentG20]

So that's how the roflcopter started??

[karmapolice247]

so that's how the soviet union got bankrupted.

j.k. :]

[gurbie68]

inventors of the roflcopter

[hnemify]

i love russian cartoons too, they have soul

[edbbob]

Amazing :) Thx

[thbs35]

In Soviet russia, COMPUTER ANIMATES YOU.

[armanias]

What's the name of the music?

[R4idenXS]

lol i was looking for a kite in the whole thing.

[BearorBust]

Unnerving, especially when you mute it and put a dark Electro track behind it.

[kcooos]

this is cool

[valfedmontage]

Классная анимация!!! Я всегда знал, что мы были первыми ;)

[TehBurnout22]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA COMMUNISM HATES YOU.

[IMTEHBRO]

awesome animatios will they be in crysis2 ?

[WTFsubzero]

In Soviet Russia, the computer animates you.

[IMTEHBRO]

@WTFsubzero ...to do what o.O?

[spiderplant]

Yea but can it run Crysis?

[KayZahn]

Спасибо - Spa-see-bah - thank you

[fuxoft]

Tron Zero!

[SkywaldHorrormood]

Can I just point out that while this is great and all that computer animation had been around since at least Spacewar in 1961.

[tomicdesu]

@SkywaldHorrormood

Sorry, that's not correct. 'Spacewar' was not "animation" it was realtime vector drawing. Kitte is absolutely amongst the earliest computer-drawn animation. I doubt it was created real-time, but probably frame-by-frame to film. Lilian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton et al in the U.S. did analogous work; theirs wrote frame by frame to 16mm microfilm for projection on a screen.

It's hard today to appreciate just how cutting edge this stuff was then.

[lanagual]

this must be the first matrix..:D

lots of glitches...the matrix is everywhere...

[heatflash888]

This was his last animation, using the computer of the people for freelance subversion tut tut - the gulag awaited

[verminosity]

The Kitte's whiskers are thick as pencils!!! That's scary.

[AlexPoolton]

Wow, 42 years ago, this was the Pixar (by Pixar I mean state of the art) of animation. Imagine what things will be like in another 42 years!

[MovieTristan]

ASCII RULEZZ!

[TMeeks01]

I was a computer operator in that era and KNOW what an achievement this was. Thank you for posting this.

[nicolunacba]

0:43 it scared me :O

[Admiralex91]

Better then the most flash animated movies on the web.

[xMADvDOGx]

this is realy cool > in you'r ass america , in your ass

[pfundit]

@xMADvDOGx really? sodomize much?

[pfundit]

i guess you never heard of John Whitney's "Permutations"

[xMADvDOGx]

i know you heared about penetrations in your ass and tryied it via permutations , you loved it

[bwillwall]

that didnt even look computer animated

[1337Shockwav3]

Hm ... I wonder what it is with russian computerists and cats :P The few russians I'm in contact with via some 8bit project love their cats to death, just like the animators here ... but then again, so do I.

But very, very cool to see this, it's impressive to see how things got started 42 years ago, when we're close to achieveing photorealism nowadays.

[jimphone]

Thats like faster than vista running on my dual core laptop with 2gb of ram

[AliceinNirvanagarden]

That cat freaks me out.

[andreyRUS17]

man,it's 60's

[Z80Fan]

1:14 and what's that thing !??!?!?!

[Z80Fan]

0:44, it looks scary to me...

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Why everyone hopes that an old computer can run Crysys?

[CodyRicheson]

I would like to know how this was done at the time. Nowadays, one could imagine it being animated easily using Flash and After Effects. But what was used in 1967?

[miv333]

I presume he had to program each pixel individually, practically drawing picture after picture but drawing with words that computer into dots.

[BlackCow99]

It almost looks like ASCII art printed on paper. I think they made some sort of sprite graphic for each frame and printed it, actually not that impressive when you think of it like that, just tedious.

[zoomerbemen]

true thats what I thought as well

[DMPineau]

Its from '67 ffs..

[Foebane72]

It IS ASCII art printed on paper, then animated. What do people expect from that time?? :)

[nephildevil]

youtube is being gay again with the audio

[Unfathomable42]

yeah, they have put the original audio back on...

[fourillusion]

is that audio tha original one?

[Unfathomable42]

I added audio in editing, the original animation had no audio.

[fourillusion]

Thanks. I've asked that for a research about cats. Great video!

[Foebane72]

Why did you choose Pirates? Those movies SUCK BALLS!

[Unfathomable42]

the music is good though.

[squigoo]

@nephildevil I fail to see how audio can have sexual orientation. Or do you mean that an increasing amount of videos are using Jeffery Star's music?

[mewhor]

@nephildevil The correct term is, ''Same-sex oriented.'' Youtube is being same-sex oriented  again with the audio. Much better.

[bukster1]

This looks like they have printed out a series of ASCII pictures and used them like animation cells.

[christl301]

So in under 40 years we get "Sherk" so what does the next 40 years hold for us??

[Wilber719]

i think they do, my friend told me that everything was created 10 years before they released

[AristYdes]

The americans invented no shit. They suck

[zathusura78910]

everyone knows people from satrun have no dicks, leave us earthlings alone or we will turn your planet into a uranium laden wasteland

[JKM12988]

wow amazing how far CG has come in a relatively short period of time

[samurijackson]

dang commies always were trying to beat us at our own game

[sovietamerican2]

dang commies always were trying to beat

the usa never tried this before the ussr.

[BobCassidy]

Defo they did. And succeeded.

[Tvpath]

I dont miss sorely that time. Iam happy to live not anymore in a "naive" world where u cant get informated on those level you can do nowadays! :D

[roxonogueira]

it was dificult to record the prints of the code onto video..they had to use stopmotion..(and video was poorly developed back then)..only with the invention of the microchip processor, the record of images was possible!

[orys]

But, anyway, it's really don't matter if that was printed on paper and then animated or if that was displayed on the screen - it's only matter of output. If computer generated the cat's movements - that should be something important.

[davidcovo]

What are the sources from this video, and where can i read more about Konstantinov.

[Unfathomable42]

I was passed this by a friend of my parents at moscow uni, they had it on a website but that was taken down a while back

[MouseFX]

looks amazing for that time

[superspit]

mmmmm....the movement of this clip, in parts, is quite haunting, very nice.

But the way it was created was very primitive, even by 1967's standards. Walt was using stop-motion photography decades prior!!..sorry.

John Whitney's stuff was earlier and technically more brilliant, though admittedly not exactly the same scope of works.

[TalksWithDirt]

Nice. Looks like they printed out bit mapped images rendered to simulate the cat's motion. Quite a feat, they defined the cat, the 'camera' the leg motions, computed each frame, then printed them out on an impact printer. You can see the paper crinkles from frame to frame. Then photographed each page to make the film. Kinda like stop motion ASCII art. So if we in the west use ASCII, what did the Eastern Bloc use ... RUSCII? :) Meeoooo!

[jigbuilda]

Very impressive for its day im sure, very interesting to watch!

[someman7]

All this computer did was printing ASCII. They animated it as any other drawn thing.

[quadreb]

You have no clue what you're talking about.

[someman7]

You mean you have no idea what I'm talking about.

[reaton33]

hes right they are printed ascii characters.. this is not rendered by the pc. if you cant see that you are an idiot.

[scpmr]

yes, it was printed by a computer, but the picture, the movements was calculated by a computer program, so it IS a computer animation

[danooct1]

Imagine the power usage of that computer.

[Telekenesis123]

Another compter that came out in the 50's the AN/FSQ-7: "An AN/FSQ-7 computer contained 55,000 vacuum tubes, occupied about half an acre (2,000 m²) of floor space, weighed 275 tons, and used up to three megawatts of power. The fifty-two AN/FSQ-7s remain the largest computers ever built, and will likely hold that record in the future."

[danooct1]

Impressive, thanks for the neat info.

[Mag1cWind0w]

Woooooooooooooow ! This animation was need a ultre very big computer in 1967 ! 8)

[PSYQUIZlabor]

it looks like a movie created by single pictures..

if this is a computer animation, than he must be the writher of the software and the creater of every single dot..

Standing ovation from me for this job!

How many month he work on this animation?

[Unfathomable42]

I struggle to find more information on this than is already here. If i find any accurate information, i will post it straight on here.

[adamosen]

looks pretty cool

[m9078jk3]

It looks as though he is using bitmapping in a similar way as the Xerox Alto Workstation used in the early 1970's or the Apple LISA or Macintosh of the 1980's era.

[LoliRipe]

fascinating!

[groundchicken]

Well the russians i suppose had to beat the Americans some where (no offence) ;)

[alphagirll]

cool piece of history I would never have known about

[ejfex]

Niklaevich Konstantinov, without "a" at ends

[Unfathomable42]

Ok, I have added that into the description, Thanks

[itchyweasel62]

coconuts

[Unfathomable42]

Coconuts?

[itchyweasel62]

its like

that's nuts!

or

nuts!

but tropical

[Unfathomable42]

Makes sence I guess...

[Unfathomable42]

as far as i can find out, it was entirly on the computer. I welcome any comments but please back up with references. i would love to know more about it.

[Duvmasta]

The animation was made entirely on a computer.

[crazycasper94]

hmm... cool i hope it is real... anyways i wish i could go back to those times imagine if what we knew know was given too our parents

[raven8dragon]

MASSIVE goosebumps! This is the most amazing thing I've watched here yet. Superb!

[hilarioph]

that nice

[ComradeLynx]

Beautiful

[Preston4321]

Wow awsome gfx, I wonder what gfx he used? Super Nuke 6000x. Sputnik used that one. :) lol. Wonder what FPS he's gettin?

[Unfathomable42]

depends how fast he turns the handle :P

[Preston4321]

turn it turn it fast faster! I'M LAGGING!!!!

Laggy peice of sh**!!!

[PenguinBoy92]

wonder if he played crysis on that thang

[kas3001]

Pretty cool, I agree.

Better than Jar-Jar, anyway.

[mad4mater]

woooah that was acctually pretty cool.

[Kinemacolour]

Oh come on! Is this the best the USSR could come up with in 67?

[Unfathomable42]

beats me, but computers have come along way in the past few years, Animation is a relitivly recent development.

[zybch]

Course its not legit!

[Unfathomable42]

Why not? do you have the real one?

[KENKENNIFF]

Literally speaking that could be the first computer animation, bit it looks like print outs so it is not the computer actually running the animation as much as generating the pictures which are then animated manually. I think a computer could have run the animation with a little bit of lateral thinking. I wonder what the Guiness book of records might say.

[Unfathomable42]

I haven't looked it up tbh, i will when i have a second and i will post here.

[poochengeez]

Yeah that could have been done on a typewriter for all we know.

[binaryguru]

It was does on a computer printer. He just printed out each frame one by one. Pretty lame to me.

[effected51]

yeah, even though it is interesting, it is still quite lame.

[burntsafari]

woot kick ass music. That has got 2 b 1 of the only classical pieces that i actually like

[leelastarsky]

The music is from the Pirates of the Carribean soundtrack. :~P

[MrBojangles15]

...is that seriously legit?

[Unfathomable42]

in the sence that it was given to my mum by a russian from moscow uni, yes. they r celebrating the 40th birthday of this.