I never knew their names were Stanley & Stella! I have them running right now on a Pioneer demo disc from a laserdisc player my late husband & I bought about a year or so before dvd's hit & blew them out of the water. I used to play it on a repeat loop as I unwound after working 3-11 pm shift. Now I can put this on my iPod- it should look awesome on my iMac! Finding this is quite a memory-flogger...
Color balance is off here, but I can only comment on this upload.
I have this animation on 2 Laserdiscs, Pioneer Laser Optics II (1989) and The Mind's Eye (1990). The latter has a different soundtrack, but I prefer the original. This and Pixar's "Luxo Jr." broke the bars for animation. Both very cute, both very emotional. Only thing I could gripe about this animation is how can the (non-penguin) birds swim?
This video still fascinates me. It is interesting on so many levels: It's made by a company called Symbolics, and it Is symbolic, of the moment when computer graphics broke the boundary between an experimental device from the engineering world to a powerful artistic device that could interact with a viewers emotions. And the symbolic 'breakthrough' moment when computer animation took that step is this self same animation, from 1986.
@TheSweaterKid Bird meets fish, bird falls in love with fish, bird is willing to go through anything to be with said fish. It's beautiful, just love it.
@ScrapChild1979 I saw the other one first, as well. I was amazed to know there were 2 versions. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I bought anything with CGI and music, because I thought it was taking too long for TV and movies to use this medium. The Mind's Eye was my favorite. It took all the best animation, like this one, and remixed it with music more fitting to tell each story, like a 3d version of Disney's Fantasia.
if anyone has a copy of the original please e-mail mail me...we need to stop original talent being ignored...it was beautiful in it's original form!!!
@capnamo Hate to break it to you, but this is the original. The one people are more familiar with was the re-mastered one for the video called "The Mind's Eye" if you notice, even though the music in this one, isn't as nice as the remastered one, This one has sound effects that match what's going on.
This was done on a Lisp Machine by Symbolics, Inc. It utilises Craig Reynolds' Boids program, originally written in ZetaLisp (precursor of Common Lisp).
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This flat out sucks compared to the one with James Reynolds' score, which, in my opinion, remains one of the best pieces of electronic music ever written (up there with the likes of Walter/Wendy Carlos and Vangelis).
I have this video on a Pioneer Laserdisc demo. This has the same video and music but has a Symbolics logo in the bottom right hand corner. Also it's only called Breaking The Ice. Nice post!
Thankyou for uploading this, my dad used to have it on tape when I was a kid and I'd watched it all the time. It's one of my major inspirations for persuing a career in 3D today.
I saw this along with the start of PIXAR (before Disney) at a computer show in NYC back in the mid 80's...I still have the original video tape with this animation as well as others on it...great stuff!!
Great video. I saw this once in my art class when it came out when I was little and thought it was amazing. Then a few months later I went with my parents to an electronics store where they had this looped on every single television in there. And my parents were in there for a good hour and a half at least.
THis is my fav out of all the YTV commercials!! I used to hate them very much because they were the only things between me and the next tv program. I liked them then i guess, but i loved them as time went by.
I remember these videos as a kid! I used to watch early computer animation by Miramar productions all the time when I was little! I just recently found my Beyond The Mind's Eye tape! XD
I never thought I'd see this again. I think the music may have been slightly different in the version I saw but this is such an amazing blast from the past. Thank you for posting this!
Yes, the "Minds Eye" Too bad my old video disks do not run on modern computers like they did on a Windows 95 system. I am searching for the original videos of it to watch on my XP system. I remember back in 1990 being in an Amiga users group and the Minds Eye was all the rave soon after being released. We were just facinated by computer graphics, not even knowing about the internet and hyper-globalization to come years later.
Minds eye used original music to make a complete program. This is the original. Symbolics was a machine that used LISP as an assembly language. Yes, really, and probably why they're not around today. That's what they tried to teach me at MIT in the 1970s.
I never knew their names were Stanley & Stella! I have them running right now on a Pioneer demo disc from a laserdisc player my late husband & I bought about a year or so before dvd's hit & blew them out of the water. I used to play it on a repeat loop as I unwound after working 3-11 pm shift. Now I can put this on my iPod- it should look awesome on my iMac! Finding this is quite a memory-flogger...
theoldAlfmeister 4 months ago
I used to see this all the time while waiting for Reboot to start!
NateLeGreat1 5 months ago
I must say that the music I know for this video was much better. The song from James Reynolds made this much more lovely.
vladi569 9 months ago
Oh my God, the nostalgia!! I can't take it!!!
FlippinBooks 10 months ago
Amazing. The levels of retro-goodness here could cause an explosion.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
Color balance is off here, but I can only comment on this upload.
I have this animation on 2 Laserdiscs, Pioneer Laser Optics II (1989) and The Mind's Eye (1990). The latter has a different soundtrack, but I prefer the original. This and Pixar's "Luxo Jr." broke the bars for animation. Both very cute, both very emotional. Only thing I could gripe about this animation is how can the (non-penguin) birds swim?
RkivUnderground 1 year ago
Manly Tears
For Nostalgia as reached critical mass!
BeaconTeaser 1 year ago 3
This video still fascinates me. It is interesting on so many levels: It's made by a company called Symbolics, and it Is symbolic, of the moment when computer graphics broke the boundary between an experimental device from the engineering world to a powerful artistic device that could interact with a viewers emotions. And the symbolic 'breakthrough' moment when computer animation took that step is this self same animation, from 1986.
vapourmile 1 year ago
In the end, all that birds dive into the water, don't they? That seems to me they do.
WildSSSnake 1 year ago
thumbs up if you got here by accident, and dont know what that was all about.
B0r3dAtH0m3 1 year ago 6
wtf is going on
TheSweaterKid 1 year ago
@TheSweaterKid Bird meets fish, bird falls in love with fish, bird is willing to go through anything to be with said fish. It's beautiful, just love it.
teknotoast 1 year ago
*This* is the original music.
The "better" version is a rescore made when this video was included in "The Mind's Eye".
softy8088 1 year ago
The Mind's Eye - 07 Love Found (Short Circutz)
Is the video with the original music.
ScrapChild1979 1 year ago
The ORIGINAL music was awesome... it would relax you so much, you felt like shitting your pants. Where the crud is that music?
ScrapChild1979 1 year ago
@ScrapChild1979 Um, no, this is the original. It was remastered for the video "The Minds Eye." Everyone is more familiar with that one
MisterBIGM0UTH 1 year ago
@MisterBIGM0UTH
I guess everyone has only been exposed to the one I displayed. Maybe not original for the books, but original to most of the public exposure...
ScrapChild1979 1 year ago
@ScrapChild1979 I saw the other one first, as well. I was amazed to know there were 2 versions. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I bought anything with CGI and music, because I thought it was taking too long for TV and movies to use this medium. The Mind's Eye was my favorite. It took all the best animation, like this one, and remixed it with music more fitting to tell each story, like a 3d version of Disney's Fantasia.
MisterBIGM0UTH 1 year ago
@MisterBIGM0UTH
Ahh yes... then Reboot came out on YTV. Mind blowing at the time!
ScrapChild1979 1 year ago 2
if anyone has a copy of the original please e-mail mail me...we need to stop original talent being ignored...it was beautiful in it's original form!!!
capnamo 1 year ago
@capnamo
The Mind's Eye - 07 Love Found (Short Circutz)
ScrapChild1979 1 year ago
@capnamo Hate to break it to you, but this is the original. The one people are more familiar with was the re-mastered one for the video called "The Mind's Eye" if you notice, even though the music in this one, isn't as nice as the remastered one, This one has sound effects that match what's going on.
MisterBIGM0UTH 1 year ago
bring back the original music!!!
capnamo 1 year ago
where's the original!!!
capnamo 1 year ago
This was done on a Lisp Machine by Symbolics, Inc. It utilises Craig Reynolds' Boids program, originally written in ZetaLisp (precursor of Common Lisp).
SecretTheatre 1 year ago
Been looking for this, but couldn't remember what it was called. Very cool. Thanks for posting.
AnitaLife27 2 years ago
After their love kiss, the other Birds mingle with the Fishes, don't they?
WildSSSnake 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This flat out sucks compared to the one with James Reynolds' score, which, in my opinion, remains one of the best pieces of electronic music ever written (up there with the likes of Walter/Wendy Carlos and Vangelis).
CeruleanFilms 2 years ago
I had not seen in this in 20 years. Supercool! Thanks for posting.
albertocottica 2 years ago
They used to show this at the Maryland Science Center.
Duvmasta 3 years ago
best lve story of all time
FallenPatriotic 3 years ago
I find that this music doesn't tell the story as well in comparison to the original (or other one).
Tarkusine 3 years ago 8
ho for a second there i thought the bird had died crashing through the water
MichaelMorbius4ever 3 years ago
I must say, I still like the original batter
BatKnowItAll 3 years ago
I have this video on a Pioneer Laserdisc demo. This has the same video and music but has a Symbolics logo in the bottom right hand corner. Also it's only called Breaking The Ice. Nice post!
champcar4ever 3 years ago 3
So do I!! I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who remembers that stuff :)
geexxx 3 years ago
Kudos, champ. The original title was indeed (if I remember correctly, that was a long time ago)
Stanley and Stella
in
"Breaking the Ice"
albertocottica 2 years ago
@champcar4ever your autism is showing bro!
ymom182 1 year ago
god I haven't seen this in 12....13 years
silverbalto 3 years ago 2
OMG!! I've got this ion my videotape of "Computer Dreams"!
CPvAnimations 3 years ago
Now if I can only find the Hawaiian Punch commercial one.
sleeky01 3 years ago
OMG I've a 80's tape of this video... one of my favourites, great!!! tnx for uploading!
asassinoooo 3 years ago
Thankyou for uploading this, my dad used to have it on tape when I was a kid and I'd watched it all the time. It's one of my major inspirations for persuing a career in 3D today.
niatona 3 years ago
I saw this along with the start of PIXAR (before Disney) at a computer show in NYC back in the mid 80's...I still have the original video tape with this animation as well as others on it...great stuff!!
lorrieatLDP 4 years ago
Is there another version of this? I have this animation on a video tape, but I don't remember it having this music, although it does fit pretty well.
AlphaCrucis 4 years ago
Great video. I saw this once in my art class when it came out when I was little and thought it was amazing. Then a few months later I went with my parents to an electronics store where they had this looped on every single television in there. And my parents were in there for a good hour and a half at least.
I hated it after that but now it's great to see.
Coffeebeanage 4 years ago
THis is my fav out of all the YTV commercials!! I used to hate them very much because they were the only things between me and the next tv program. I liked them then i guess, but i loved them as time went by.
GrandPatzer 5 years ago
I remember these videos as a kid! I used to watch early computer animation by Miramar productions all the time when I was little! I just recently found my Beyond The Mind's Eye tape! XD
MabonFaeries 5 years ago
didnt he like, turn into a fish or something?
thetrevistabomb 5 years ago
The music in tis has an almost Ray Lynch quality doesn't it?
mycroft791 5 years ago
You are MY HERO :D
I never thought I'd see this again. I think the music may have been slightly different in the version I saw but this is such an amazing blast from the past. Thank you for posting this!
lyzaya 5 years ago 2
goodness,i haven't seen this in years!!i loved this as a kid and have now,and only now,finnaly found it!!
do you mind posting more of this?Oh please?i would absolutely love it if you did!
6iron6maiden6 5 years ago
Yes, the "Minds Eye" Too bad my old video disks do not run on modern computers like they did on a Windows 95 system. I am searching for the original videos of it to watch on my XP system. I remember back in 1990 being in an Amiga users group and the Minds Eye was all the rave soon after being released. We were just facinated by computer graphics, not even knowing about the internet and hyper-globalization to come years later.
bixlerscott 5 years ago
did this clip used to have diferent music?
gigaflex 5 years ago
yea i was thinking the same thing and wasnt there a longer version?! i could be wrong
hydraulikz 5 years ago
thank you sooooo much! i've looked for this everywhere
Montork 5 years ago
I remember watching this late at nite when I was kid and its still moves me.
Noasu 5 years ago
Minds eye used original music to make a complete program. This is the original. Symbolics was a machine that used LISP as an assembly language. Yes, really, and probably why they're not around today. That's what they tried to teach me at MIT in the 1970s.
youarthurhu 5 years ago
You rule. Simply and truly. This brings back so many memories! Ahhh love it.
lovango 5 years ago