10 Defining Moments in CG History

While not the 10 most important moments, 3dworld has compiled a list of 10 very important moments in CG History, beginning with FutureWorld (1978, shown right) through Chicken Little (2005).

In the early days of the 1970s, just a few seconds of computer generated 2D animation was expensive to produce and considered a huge innovation. But today entire motion pictures are being produced using 3D animation and released in stereoscopic digital 3D. All the hard work of the modellers, FX supervisors and animators jumps right out into your lap. None of it would have been possible without these top groundbreaking moments in the history of CG…

via 3D World – The Magazine For 3D Artists.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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