Short documentary by the OU about CGI technology in the 80's & 90's

Short documentary for the Open University about CGI technology first shown in the 90's. It features interviews with Bill Reeves from Pixar. He explains how Pixar use CGI technology of the day to produce some of their early animated shorts. Also featured are shorts by Ex Machina.

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Education

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• CGI technology
• bill reeves
• PIXAR
• animation
• OU presentation
• computer graphics
• reds dream
• luxo junior
• Ex Machina
• 80's
• 90's

[lkawaiinekol]

@Sqdrn1 i would like to know what are the names of those video that TDI made i was looking for them especially the one that was the longest cgi at the time i dont know how to find it...

[nanimawa]

As much as I love Pixar, you'd have to be a fool to not realise that people were doing CGI in the 70's and 80's. The reason Pixar gets such a good name is because they're are the first studio to make a feature film using entirely CGI (which is, of course, Toy Story), and they've done some fantastic films ever since. However other studios, including Pixar, made short CGI films for many years =)

[Sqdrn1]

90% of this is not Pixar but French Ex Machina//TDI. who collaborated on developmenyt of the Thomson Digital Image (TDI) 'Explor' software in their shared offices in Rue Hegesippe Moreau, Paris . The cgi at the start of this sequence is from their 1789 Bastille commemoration - and I believe at that time the world's longest cgi film ever.

Shocki as it may appear to many - there was a time and there remain people where working iun cgi - when PIxar had yet to get out of diapers.