The Mind's Eye - 08 Leaving the Bonds of Earth (Short Circutz)

This is the animation "Leaving the Bonds of the Earth" from the early computer animation compilation "The Mind's Eye."

In 1990 Odyssey Productions gathered together shorts and demo reels from hundreds of artists working in the fledgling field of computer animation. These captivating computer generated videos were combined with an original score to give the world a look at the future of animation. Eventually these shorts would be licensed by YTV in Canada to be aired as "Short Circutz" in place of commercials.

Unlike later productions, The Mind's Eye was only released on VHS tape and Laserdisc. This is the higher quality Laserdisc release, carefully digitized.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Odyssey
• Miramar
• Mind's
• Eye
• Short
• Circutz
• YTV
• Computer
• Generated
• 3D
• Animation

[rightbraintrain]

The music on this one is fantastic.

[EnderSquared]

this song should've been in some of those old sci-fi movies maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey or Bladerunner. its that awesome.

[Exodia64]

0:20... the cry of that bird is deeply haunting... anyone else?

[shoshanish]

@KXPW1 yeah that makes sence of we find some way the make expanding metals....

[KXPW1]

Jan 1, 3000 con't:flying space vehicle were by then we can travel by the speed of light who knows we might even have robots with artificial intellegents so imagin will have A human race and A man made robotics race were robots can also reproduce of there own kind through robotic sex by the use of there robotic sex organs female robots can give birth to baby robots.

[KXPW1]

This video shows how the technology of mankind is constenly growing to me it shows how will we be living in the future perhaps the year Jan 1, 3000 were planet earth will not be the only place were life exsist but exsist through out the milky way galaxy imagin moon hotels or moon housing floating space citys or colony's from one end of the galaxy to the other end flying space vehicle.

[MattyBoy714]

I watched this a lot as a kid. The beginning bits were brighter-sounding and -looking. By the time the tape was coming to a close and getting to these later parts, I remember being scared and uneasy but couldn't look away.

One late night, some friends and I had been smoking and I showed this to them. It was quite an eerie trip!

[rcharding]

Thank you posting these. I have the VHS and loved it.

[bentfishy]

That bird at the end is absolutely beayutiful!

[mrjustin5]

The last animation sequence at 3:30 is pretty awesome. I love the way old CGI stuff looks. Notice the up and down jitter due to the fact that the CGI renderings were actually printed on 35MM FILM!!! wow! I just love the way CGI looks on old, grainy 35MM film. So awesome. We dont see that done much today, unless its shown in an older theater that still uses 35MM projectors. I loved the Minds Eye CGI animations. They kinda went down hill after Beyond The Minds eye (that was the best one).

[jadegecko]

Oh, man, thank you so much. To me, this version is the real version...