It took CGSociety a while, but Paul Hellard has just published a big retrospective of what happened in 2009 in the CG industry.
While in 2009 the CG industry was active and progressive in many ways, last year saw the demise of many studios working in games and motion pictures. In many ways, 2009 was a watershed year. The community has now given their view on the year and the burgeoning technologies. Other suggestions were products, mergers, movies, games, shorts and even influential people.
If they pulled enough votes, they made it onto the list. Let’s cut to the chase. CGSociety presents the public-voted Top 20 CG happenings of 2009.
It’s a great list, covering technology like Stereoscopics and realistic head replacement, movies like Avatar and Cloudy, video games like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Killzone2, software like Mudbox and Maya 2010, and much much more.
