The Mind's Eye - 04 Heart of the Machine (Short Circutz)

This is the animation "Heart of the Machine" 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.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

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

[chameleonquest]

What's the name of the short film at 2:22. I remember I've seen it before I would like to search for the original piece with the original music. I think it was called "the journey" or "quest", something like that.

[Jax184]

@chameleonquest It's called Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light by Apollo. It's here on Youtube.

[rockstarninja]

why did these Short Circutz make MORE sense to me as a child?

[CleansWithRag]

Why hasn't anyone done anything like this again?!

I guess they realized that you can't beat perfection.

[1a5c]

thank you for this i used to watch this when i was little

[MrShayMarks]

WAY TO GO BOWLING BALL MAN

[Tsunimoki]

@chameleonquest Well, in fact, a shot from this film was used on the VHS and LaserDisc cover.

[SacredEarthPictures]

PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT to the creator of "The Mind's Eye". Yes, Odyssey had a collection of CGI demos, but "The Mind's Eye" was a MIRAMAR production by Emmy Award winning director JAN NICKMAN who spent thousands of hours exquisitely crafting them into a double platinum selling film considered to be a milestone in the field of computer animation. With a score by JAMES REYNOLDS, "The Mind's Eye" reached #12 on Billboard's video hits chart. PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT TO THE ARTISTS.

[shoshanish]

@poboburgner so did i, if i recall correctly, the first parts was god making the unvierse, followed by history, then the aliens invaded, we merged cultures, and became a single species, with cyborgs and robots, and then we rules the universe.

[shoshanish]

@rockstarninja because you had the childs imagination, you dont know the boundaries of existence, so to you anything could happen, that is why new discoveries that shadder boundaries are so fascinating to adults, but to children that can understand it, its not the baffling,

[poboburgner]

when i was a little kid, we had this on vhs. I used to make up stories to go along with the things on screen as I watched.

[bentfishy]

I love this, but I never understood what the stick figure thingy was supposed to be. Or why he wanted to be rainbow.