CGI (Computer Graphic Industry) The Timeline

 Brief Timeline History:

1960’s:

• Initial experimentation with 3D graphics      

• Key figures Charles Csuri & John Whitney Sr

1970’s:

• Many animation & rendering algorithms used today were developed in the 1970’s

• Image & Bump textures developed

• Hand & face animation improved

• First use of 3D CGI in movies

1980’s:

• Raytracing rendering developed

• Video became most common output method for animation

• Luxo Jr (Pixar 1985) was the first computer generated animation up for an academy award

 1990’s & 2000’s:

• Notable success  of 3D CG imagery in Harry Potter & Lord of The Rings

• Games developement  grows with the release of many game consoles such as  Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube/Wii

 —————————————————————————————– 1960’s:

CGI (Computer Graphic Industry) has come a long way since the 1960’s. John Whitney Sr founded the company Motions Graphic inc in the 60’s. Spacewars was the first game created and developed by Steve Russell

<——– Space Wars

the first CGI use for commercials MAGI for IBM. GUI (Graphic User Interface) was developed by Xeron.

 

——————————————————————————————1970’s:

Lillian Schwartz produces pixellation at Bell Labs (Pixellation is an effect caused by displaying a bitmap section at a large size that individual pixels that comprise the bitmap)

The Intel 4004 4-bit processor was introduced. it was the considered to be the worlds first commerical single chip microprocessor. it could execute 60,000 instructions per second

 <—— Intel 4004 4-bit processor

Many animation and rendering algorithms used today were developed

The 8″ floppy disc was created by IBM—————>

(The floppy disc was in many formats 5.25″ & also 3.5″. its been enjoyed for many years but but now thay are becoming less popular because of the introduction of the flash drives )

Hand in face animation improved

 

The @symbol was introduced and selected for e-mail address by BBN (Bolt Beranek & Newman)

The C was introduced by Ritchie (Dennis)

The Intel 8008 8- bit processor was created it was an early microprocessor designed & manufactured by Intel. It could execute 500000 instruction per second.  

Intel 8oo8 8- bit processor ——————>

The video game Pong was developed for Atari , Atari produced many versions of the game pong with some of the games having more than 1 game on it, also that had updated versions where u could have a maximun 4 players on some of the games.

 

<—–Pong for Atari

the Intel 8080 (Zilog) was introduced

 Future World (the sequel to Westworld) used 3D CGI 

         Futureworld ———->

 

Sony introduce Betamax Recorder 

 

 The Sony Betamax Recorder  ———–>

The Altair 8800 computer was introduced                                           

 

The Altair Computer———–>

 

Mr Bill Gates creates Microsoft

Bill Gates The creater & owner of Microsoft——–>

The apple 1 came about. it was an early personal computer. it was apple’s first computer  product to be sold                                                                                                      

The Apple 1 ————> 

VHS (Video Home System) format by Matsushita

JVC VHS home system  was released

The apple 2 came out   ————–>        

IGES graphic format file  specified

 

Atari 8-bit computers where intorduced to the world 

George Lucas hires Ed Catmull, Ralph Guggenhiem and Alvy Ray Smith To form Lucas Films ——–>

 

————————————————————————————————————–1980:

Donkey Kong was introduced by Nintendo & Mario was released in the US

Seagate brought out their Hard drive

The Sony Walkman Came Out

Sony & Philips intorduce the first CD player

Adobe Illustrator was created

Disney & Pixar develope CAPS ( Computer Animation Paint System)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit mixed live action with animation

—————————————————————————————————————————————–    1990

3D Studio Max came out
Windows 3.0 also came out

Quicktime was introduced by apple

 

 

 

Nintendo brought out the N64

Reboot used 3D characters

 

Toy Story came out

 

Sony introduced the Playstation 1995 

 MP3 format was developed

 Ebay launched

 

Google launched

 

 Silicon Graphic Incorporated changed the name to SGI

Napster was introduced

 

 Toy Story 2 came out

 

Fantasia came out

Stuart Little came out

 

—————————————————————————————————————————-2000

Playstation 2 was released

 

The Applei-pod was released  

 

AOL & Time Warner merged together.

AAC ( Advance Audio Coding) was introduced byDolby labs

 

Windows XP was released 

Nintendo Gamecube was released

 

Microsoft released the XBOX

 

HP/Compaq merged

Adobe buyout Micromedia for $3.4bn

 

Disney accuire Pixar for $7.4bn

 

 

 

Pixar:The Way We Make Films:

 

 The Story Idea:

a member of the pixar company get together with the other members of the development team and that person shares the idea with the team. with this company they want the audience to believe in the film that they’re creating so you could say that they are a family company.

 

The Text Tretment:

A treatment is a short document to summerise the main ideas for the story/film. many treatments sometimes of the same idea will be developed to find the right balance between soild and open possibilities. 

  Storyboards are drawn:

Storyboards are like hand written comic books versions of the movie. Its the blueprint for the action & dialouge. the storyboard artist recives script pages &/or a beat outline a map of the characters emotional changes

Cast/ Voice Overs & Recordings

At first artist from  the Pixar team will do the voice overs for the storyboard reel, when the dialouge & storyboard is at a latter stage they bring in the professional (the big guns), they start to record their voices normally reading from script or improvising . they record the lines & voices in several different ways to ge their emotional  reactions and expressions.

Editing & Making Reels:

REEL: (Is like a video tape that allows the clean up storyboard sequence to stand alone) the edit artist job is to use the information to fix the length & other elements of each shot in a sequence.

 

The Art Development Creates The Looks & Feel

They create inspiratioinal art illstrusting the world & the characters. also their jobs is to create the set.

 Models: Sculpted & Articulated:

by them using the art department models a set of informational drawings, the characters sets and props are either sclupted by hand then scanned in 3D directly in the computer, they are given avars/hinges  in which the animator will be able to move the character

 

 The Sets are made:

Once the sets are built they must be dressed with props made, the chairs,curtains, the carpets and so on, it to create a may believe world, a set dresser works with the producer and director to ensure that the director vision for the enviroment in being relized

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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