In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

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For years one of the highlights at the SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques has always been the Computer Animation Festival. The Festival is a platform for the best in ...

Computer animation or CGI animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer-generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Before the 1990s, most visual effects in movies consisted of stop motion and people in suits. While computer animation was used in “Star Wars” and ...

CGI on film, arguably, has two distinct eras: before, and after, the one-two punch of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Jurassic Park (1993). The two films marked a major move forward in movie CGI ...

Adam Bargteil receives funding from the National Science Fiundation, Disney, and Adobe. He is a director-at-large for ACM SIGGRAPH. With 25 years of hindsight, “Jurassic Park” marks a pivotal point in ...

We take seamless computer animation for granted these days. It’s hard not to when it’s growing increasingly difficult to decipher between reality and various simulated worlds. But computer animation ...

The term “movie magic” may seem like an exaggeration, but there’s a fair amount of wizardry that goes into making your favorite films and TV shows. Often, CGI is front and center in bringing a project ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...